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Irrigated Eden

- The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
Af: Mark Fiege Engelsk Paperback

Irrigated Eden

- The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
Af: Mark Fiege Engelsk Paperback
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Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.

Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999

Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000

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Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.

Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999

Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780295980133
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0295980133
Kategori: Irrigation
Udg. Dato: 1 jul 2000
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 1 jul 2000
Forfatter(e): Mark Fiege
Forfatter(e) Mark Fiege


Kategori Irrigation


ISBN-13 9780295980133


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 228mm


Højde 154mm


Udg. Dato 1 jul 2000


Oplagsdato 1 jul 2000


Forlag University of Washington Press

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