Engineering nature : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise /

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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 environme...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Teisch, Jessica B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Water resources development > United States > History.
Mining engineering > United States > History.
Water resources development > History.
Mining engineering > History.
Ressources en eau > Exploitation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Technique minière > États-Unis > Histoire.
Ressources en eau > Exploitation > Histoire.
Technique minière > Histoire.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Mining engineering
Water resources development
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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