Engineering nature : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / Jessica B. Teisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teisch, Jessica B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development--United States--History.

Water resources development.

Mining engineering--United States--History.

Mining engineering.

Water resources development--History.

Mining engineering--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Palestine--semiarid regions that shared a need for water to support growing populations and economies--California water engineers applied their expertise in irrigation and mining proj

Contents:

Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India

A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California

The California model and the Australian awakening

Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier

Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire

Palestine's peculiar social experiments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-464-3

979-88-908862-9-3

1-4696-0351-9

0-8078-7801-4

OCLC:

714737380