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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780807871768
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807871761
ISBN-13
9780807871768
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99499469
Product Key Features
Book Title
Engineering Nature : Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Mining, Environmental / Water Supply, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Natural Resources
Illustrator
Yes
Features
New Edition
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-029268
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership." -- Choice, " Engineering Nature is the first in-depth study of the California engineers who were instrumental in shaping the contours of water politics and technology worldwide. Teish's excellent and engaging research will make a deep, significant impact on a wide variety of interrelated fields including environmental history, historical geography, the history of science and technology, economic history, and California history."--Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor, Environmental History journal, Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise.--Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences [A] fresh conceptual framework.--Environment and History An intriguing and balanced narrative about one of the more problematical eras of environmental history.--Journal of American History Not only does Engineering Nature help us to situate "progress," identifying its ideological foundations, it also allows us to understand how expertise contributed to globalization.--Environmental History Readers will find Teisch's global approach unusual and refreshing as California engineers pop up in unexpected places.--Water And Power Associates This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership." --Choice TEISCH, Engineering "Teisch's book resounds for historians and concern global citizens alike.--Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, TEISCH, Engineering "Teisch's book resounds for historians and concern global citizens alike.-- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership." -- Choice, " Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise."-- Journal of Environmental Studies and S, " Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise."-- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past -- particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise. -- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Not only does Engineering Nature help us to situate "progress," identifying its ideological foundations, it also allows us to understand how expertise contributed to globalization.-- Environmental History, Not only does Engineering Nature help us to situate progress, identifying its ideological foundations, it also allows us to understand how expertise contributed to globalization. -- Environmental History, "Not only does Engineering Nature help us to situate "progress," identifying its ideological foundations, it also allows us to understand how expertise contributed to globalization."-- Environmental History, "This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership." - Choice, "Engineering Natureis the first in-depth study of the California engineers who were instrumental in shaping the contours of water politics and technology worldwide. Teish's excellent and engaging research will make a deep, significant impact on a wide variety of interrelated fields including environmental history, historical geography, the history of science and technology, economic history, and California history."--Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor,Environmental Historyjournal, "Beautifully written, deeply researched, and shrewdly argued, Engineering Nature is a model study of the fraught relationship between water and power, between the technocratic impulse and social reform in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Teisch's superb, compelling book internationalizes a subject that long has needed a global perspective."--Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College, TEISCH, Engineering "Teisch's book resounds for historians and concern global citizens alike."-- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise.-- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Readers will find Teisch's global approach unusual and refreshing as California engineers pop up in unexpected places.-- Water And Power Associates, "Teisch weaves a tale of global ambition that ties water and irrigation projects for mines and farms to programs of cultural imperialism. . . . There is much to understand about water development in this era, and Teisch opens the door to a less well-known part of that story." - Hawaiian Journal of History, " Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the pas--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise." - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, "Readers will find Teisch's global approach unusual and refreshing as California engineers pop up in unexpected places."-- Water And Power Associates, An intriguing and balanced narrative about one of the more problematical eras of environmental history.-- Journal of American History, "Readers will find Teisch's global approach unusual and refreshing as California engineers pop up in unexpected places." - Water And Power Associates, "Beautifully written, deeply researched, and shrewdly argued,Engineering Natureis a model study of the fraught relationship between water and power, between the technocratic impulse and social reform in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Teisch's superb, compelling book internationalizes a subject that long has needed a global perspective."--Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College, "Not only does Engineering Nature help us to situate "progress," identifying its ideological foundations, it also allows us to understand how expertise contributed to globalization." - Environmental History, TEISCH, Engineering Teisch's book resounds for historians and concern global citizens alike. -- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, An intriguing and balanced narrative about one of the more problematical eras of environmental history. -- Journal of American History, Readers will find Teisch's global approach unusual and refreshing as California engineers pop up in unexpected places. -- Water And Power Associates, This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership. -- CHOICE, "An intriguing and balanced narrative about one of the more problematical eras of environmental history."-- Journal of American History
Dewey Decimal
333.70973
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
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., 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., 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. Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions to the developing twentieth-century frontiers of Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Palestine. Teisch argues that these engineers became early agents of the persistent, uneven spread of technology and wealth to developing nations., 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 ......
LC Classification Number
HD1694.A5T37 2011
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