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Irrigated Eden
Author | : Mark Fiege |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2009-11-23 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780295989747 |
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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
H R 123 H R 2498 and H R 2535
Author | : United States |
Publsiher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0160818222 |
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The Bureau of Reclamation
Author | : Brit Allan Storey |
Publsiher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Dams |
ISBN | : UCBK:C099191688 |
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Building the Borderlands A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the MexicoTexas Border
Author | : Casey Walsh |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Cotton farmers |
ISBN | : 9781603444361 |
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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.
Repayment of Reclamation Projects
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3529361 |
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Repayment Histories and Payout Schedules 1952
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
ISBN | : UOM:39015039442176 |
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Repayment Histories and Payout Schedules 1952
Author | : United States. Reclamation Bureau |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
ISBN | : WISC:89046870721 |
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