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Author Teisch, Jessica B.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. Teisch argues that by examining the successes and failures of various projects as American influence spread, we can see the complex role of globalization at work, often with incredibly disproportionate results.
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Subject Water resources development -- United States -- History.
Water resources development.
United States.
History.
Mining engineering -- United States -- History.
Mining engineering.
Water resources development -- History.
Mining engineering -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Teisch, Jessica B. Engineering nature. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834435 (DLC) 2010029268 (OCoLC)649927265
ISBN 9780807878019 (electronic book)
0807878014 (electronic book)
9781469603513 (electronic book)
1469603519 (electronic book)
9780807834435
0807834432
9780807871768
0807871761
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