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Irrigated Eden : the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West /

"Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Flege's study of irrigation in southern Idaho's Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators bui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fiege, Mark (Mark T.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999.
Colección:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by William Cronon
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction Discovering the irrigated landscape
  • Genesis: water, earth, and irrigation systems
  • Habitat: the irrigated landscape and its biota
  • Dividing water: conflist, cooperation, and allocation on the upper Snake River
  • Labor and landscape: Irrigated agriculture and work
  • From field to market: agricultural production in the irrigated landcape
  • Industrial Eden: myth, metaphor, and the irrigated landscape
  • Conclusion: World in the making
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.