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

by Jessica Teisch

Book Overview

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"