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Author Teisch, Jessica B.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 260 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Water resources development -- United States -- History.
Mining engineering -- United States -- History.
Water resources development -- History.
Mining engineering -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807834435 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807871768 (pbk : alk. paper)
9780807878019 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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