Mining California
Subtitle: an ecological history
By: Andrew C. Isenberg
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780809069323
Subjects: Umweltschaden; Raubbau; Nature; Natürliche Ressourcen; Effect of human beings on; Umweltveränderung; Environmental conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: The political economy of California industrialization; title: The alchemy of hydraulic mining : technology, law, and resource-intensive industrialization; title: Banking on Sacramento : urban development, flood control, and political legitimization; title: Capitalizing on nature : innovation and production in the redwood forests; title: Gambling on the grassland : kinship, capital, and ecology in Southern California; title: The enclosure of the plateau : land and labor in the high lake country; title: Epilogue : economic development and the California environment.