Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

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 ...

By Jessica B. Teisch
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; New edition edition (February 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807834432
ISBN-13: 978-0807834435
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 4592193
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook

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