| Title |
Engineering nature : water, development & the global spread of American environmental expertise / Jessica B. Teisch. |
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| Imprint |
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. |
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| Description |
260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : California welcomes the world -- Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments -- Conclusion : the common world destiny. |
| Subject(s) |
Water resources development -- History.
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Mining engineering -- History.
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