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

by Jessica Teisch

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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 environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Palestine--semiarid regions that shared...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807871761

ISBN13:9780807871768

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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