Irrigated Eden

Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989747

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Irrigated Eden by Mark Fiege Pdf

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

Author : United States
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160818222

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H.R. 123, H.R. 2498 and H.R. 2535 by United States Pdf

Author : Brit Allan Storey
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dams
ISBN : UCBK:C099191688

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The Bureau of Reclamation by Brit Allan Storey Pdf

Author : Casey Walsh
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cotton farmers
ISBN : 9781603444361

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Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the MexicoTexas Border by Casey Walsh Pdf

Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cardenas government's effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico's effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the "social field" of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh's important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : UCAL:B3529361

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Repayment of Reclamation Projects by United States. Bureau of Reclamation Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : UOM:39015039442176

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Repayment Histories and Payout Schedules, 1952 by United States. Bureau of Reclamation Pdf

Author : United States. Reclamation Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : WISC:89046870721

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Repayment Histories and Payout Schedules, 1952 by United States. Reclamation Bureau Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1864 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022384575

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : Theodore Hiebert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : J document (Biblical criticism)
ISBN : 9780195092059

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The Yahwist's Landscape by Theodore Hiebert Pdf

In this book Theodore Hiebert re-examines these assumptions, and offers a new understanding of the role of nature in biblical thought.

Author : Ron E. Withers
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475967876

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Nature’s School by Ron E. Withers Pdf

Nature’s School is both the intriguing story of the rise and fall of a town because of the influence of the Wabash River and a broader observation of the significant role of water in the chronicle of American history. Peru, Indiana is usually defined by the rich circus heritage in its past, but the most significant history of the town lies in the relationship it has with the Wabash River, a story that has largely been forgotten. Nature’s School is a narrative that includes Native Americans, land speculation, the Wabash & Erie Canal, railroads, and changes in the Wabash River, weaving an absorbing tale about the settling of Peru, its destruction during the 1913 flood, and the consequences of misreading the role of humans within the natural landscape.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : OSU:32435063751861

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Reclamation Repayments and Payout Schedules, 1902-1957 by United States. Bureau of Reclamation Pdf

Author : Dee Garceau-Hagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136076107

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Portraits of Women in the American West by Dee Garceau-Hagen Pdf

Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told. This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism, and women in the urban and rural, industrial and agricultural West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036452365

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Jonah Infill Drilling Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031238843

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Sandy Area Livestock Grazing Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Deutsch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229557

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Making a Modern U.S. West by Sarah Deutsch Pdf

To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country's future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression's end, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region--the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders--Deutsch attends to the region's role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a "white man's country." While this racial formation was linked to claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the eve of World War II.