| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index. |
| Contents |
The political economy of California industrialization -- The alchemy of hydraulic mining : technology, law, and resource-intensive industrialization -- Banking on Sacramento : urban development, flood control, and political legitimization -- Capitalizing on nature : innovation and production in the redwood forests -- Gambling on the grassland : kinship, capital, and ecology in Southern California -- The enclosure of the plateau : land and labor in the high lake country -- Epilogue : economic development and the California environment. |
| Subject |
California -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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California. |
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Environmental conditions. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- California.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
| ISBN |
0809095351 alkaline paper |
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9780809095353 alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780809095353 |
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