Author: William Hammond Hall
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Study of Panama Canal Plans and Arguments, Addressed to the Hon. George C. Perkins
Author: William Hammond Hall
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Engineering Nature
Author: Jessica B. Teisch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807878014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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 a need for water to support growing populations and economies--California water engineers applied their expertise in irrigation and mining projects on behalf of foreign governments and business interests. Engineering Nature explores how controlling the vagaries of nature abroad required more than the export of blueprints for dams, canals, or mines; it also entailed the problematic transfer of the new technology's sociopolitical context. Water engineers confronted unforeseen variables in each region as they worked to implement their visions of agrarian settlement and industrial growth, including the role of the market, government institutions, property rights, indigenous peoples, labor, and, not last, the environment. Teisch argues that by examining the successes and failures of various projects as American influence spread, we can see the complex role of globalization at work, often with incredibly disproportionate results.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807878014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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 a need for water to support growing populations and economies--California water engineers applied their expertise in irrigation and mining projects on behalf of foreign governments and business interests. Engineering Nature explores how controlling the vagaries of nature abroad required more than the export of blueprints for dams, canals, or mines; it also entailed the problematic transfer of the new technology's sociopolitical context. Water engineers confronted unforeseen variables in each region as they worked to implement their visions of agrarian settlement and industrial growth, including the role of the market, government institutions, property rights, indigenous peoples, labor, and, not last, the environment. Teisch argues that by examining the successes and failures of various projects as American influence spread, we can see the complex role of globalization at work, often with incredibly disproportionate results.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Engineering Progress
Author: Jessica Beth Teisch
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Category : Irrigation farming
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
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Category : Irrigation farming
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The California Debris Commission
Author: Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
Author: Chris Pollock
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN: 1558685456
Category : Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN: 1558685456
Category : Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.
Measures for Progress
Author: Rexmond Canning Cochrane
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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