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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Report of the State Engineer to the Legislature of the State of California, Session of ...
Author: California. Office of State Engineer
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...
Author: California
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Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. Senate
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 3028
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 3028
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Biennial Report of the Trustees of the State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Progress Report of the State Engineer
Author: California. Department of Engineering
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Report to the Legislature ... on Water Problems of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. Joint Committee on Water Problems
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Engineering Nature
Author: Jessica B. Teisch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807878014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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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 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 Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
Author: Philip Garone
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948491
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948491
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
Bulletin
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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