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Author: Jessica B. Teisch
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.412kg
ISBN: 9780807871768
ISBN 10: 0807871761
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 February 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise. -- Journal of Environmental Studies and S
Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the pas--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise. <br>- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Engineering Nature is the first in-depth study of the California engineers who were instrumental in shaping the contours of water politics and technology worldwide. Teish's excellent and engaging research will make a deep, significant impact on a wide variety of interrelated fields including environmental history, historical geography, the history of science and technology, economic history, and California history. --Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor, Environmental History journal<br>
"Not only does Engineering Nature help us to situate ""progress,"" identifying its ideological foundations, it also allows us to understand how expertise contributed to globalization.--Environmental History This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership."" --Choice TEISCH, Engineering ""Teisch's book resounds for historians and concern global citizens alike.--Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences Engineering Nature provides an opportunity to learn from both the successes and the failures of the past--particularly at the confluence of natural resources, technological prowess, and economic promise.--Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences [A] fresh conceptual framework.--Environment and History An intriguing and balanced narrative about one of the more problematical eras of environmental history.--Journal of American History Readers will find Teisch's global approach unusual and refreshing as California engineers pop up in unexpected places.--Water And Power Associates"
This is a readable, even fascinating, history. . . .There are lessons here for how engineering can and cannot be used to implement social change. Highly recommended. All levels of readership. <br>- Choice
Author Information
Jessica B. Teisch is an independent scholar who received her Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
