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"""This deeply textured narrative of power, adaptation, and human agency stands as a welcome, and long overdue, contribution to the history of American industrialism."" - Enterprise and Society ""Ambitiously conceived, abundantly researched, effectively plotted, elegantly composed, and concisely argued, Igler's study of the rise and fall of Miller & Lux will be hailed as a landmark contribution. No other work on late nineteenth-century California so stylishly and convincingly brings together the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of the state's post-Gold Rush development."" - Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay ""David Igler writes this intriguing history at the intersection of landscape, work and industry. He places the emergence of Western resource based corporations at the center of a set of cultural, economic, and natural changes that intersect and ramify in unforeseen directions."" - Richard White, author of ""It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"": A New History of the American West"""

""This deeply textured narrative of power, adaptation, and human agency stands as a welcome, and long overdue, contribution to the history of American industrialism."" - Enterprise and Society ""Ambitiously conceived, abundantly researched, effectively plotted, elegantly composed, and concisely argued, Igler's study of the rise and fall of Miller & Lux will be hailed as a landmark contribution. No other work on late nineteenth-century California so stylishly and convincingly brings together the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of the state's post-Gold Rush development."" - Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay ""David Igler writes this intriguing history at the intersection of landscape, work and industry. He places the emergence of Western resource based corporations at the center of a set of cultural, economic, and natural changes that intersect and ramify in unforeseen directions."" - Richard White, author of ""It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"": A New History of the American West""

This deeply textured narrative of power, adaptation, and human agency stands as a welcome, and long overdue, contribution to the history of American industrialism. - Enterprise and Society Ambitiously conceived, abundantly researched, effectively plotted, elegantly composed, and concisely argued, Igler's study of the rise and fall of Miller & Lux will be hailed as a landmark contribution. No other work on late nineteenth-century California so stylishly and convincingly brings together the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of the state's post-Gold Rush development. - Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay David Igler writes this intriguing history at the intersection of landscape, work and industry. He places the emergence of Western resource based corporations at the center of a set of cultural, economic, and natural changes that intersect and ramify in unforeseen directions. - Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own : A New History of the American West

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David Igler is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

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