Irrigated Eden - 9780295980133
Un libro in lingua di Mark Fiege Cronon William (FRW) edito da Univ of Washington Pr, 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
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Irrigated Eden
- Sottotitolo: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Mark Fiege Cronon William (FRW)
- Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
- Collana: Univ of Washington Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Agosto '00
- Genere: NATURE
- Argomenti : Irrigation farming Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.) Irrigation farming Idaho Irrigation Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)
- Pagine: 323
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0295980133
- EAN-13: 9780295980133