Irrigated Eden

The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

AvMark Fiege

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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, 1999Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-07-01
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of Washington Press
Medarbetare:Cronon,William
ISBN:9780295980133

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Mer om författaren

Mark Fiege is a professor of history and Wallace Stegner Endowed Chair in Western Studies at Montana State University. He is the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (UW Press, 2013) and Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (UW Press, 2000).

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"Fiege suggests that, no matter how we try to alter the natural world, the unexpected consequences of our actions will always come back to haunt us. . . . He also offers new ways of thinking about the past and, possibly, new ways of thinking about how the future will unfold. The writing style is eloquent."

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by William CrononAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Discovering the Irrigated Landscape1) Genesis: Water, Earth, and Irrigation Systems2) Habitat: The Irrigated Landscape and Its Biota3) Dividing Water: Conflict, Cooperation, and Allocation on the Upper Snake River4) Labor and Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture and Work5) From Field to Market: Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape6) Industrial Eden: Myth, Metaphor, and the Irrigated Landscape7) Conclusion: A World in the makingNotesSelected BibliographyIndex