Author Teisch, Jessica B.

Title Engineering nature : water, development & the global spread of American environmental expertise / Jessica B. Teisch.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  HD1694.A5 T45 2011  AVAILABLE
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.
Mining engineering -- History.