UID:
edocfu_9959226697602883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4696-0351-9
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0-8078-7801-4
Content:
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 proj
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-7176-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3443-2
Language:
English
