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Copper Stain
ASARCO's Legacy in El Paso
Av Elaine Hampton, Cynthia C. Ontiveros
Inbunden, 2019
355 kr
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The convertors would spew it out,"" employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. ""You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire. . . . If you slip, you'd be like a little pat of butter, melting away.""Hernandez was describing work at ASARCO El Paso, a smelter and onetime economic …
Ruling the Waters
California's Kern River, the Environment, and the Making of Western Water Law
Inbunden, 2020
529 kr
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When Europeans first arrived at what is now California's San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile …
Open Pit Visible from the Moon
The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest
Inbunden, 2020
413 kr
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Situated among the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, Miners Ridge contains vast quantities of copper. Kennecott Copper Corporation's plan to develop an open-pit mine there was, when announced in 1966, the first test of the mining provision of the …
Rodeo
An Animal History
Av Susan Nance
Inbunden, 2020
428 kr
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What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?"" asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and the environment in the West, this book explores …
Copper Stain
ASARCO's Legacy in El Paso
Av Elaine Hampton, Cynthia C. Ontiveros
Häftad, 2020
254 kr
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The convertors would spew it out,' employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. 'You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire. . . . If you slip, you'd be like a little pat of butter, melting away.'Hernandez was describing work at ASARCO El Paso, a smelter and onetime economic …
Energy Crises
Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s
Av Jay E. Hakes
Inbunden, 2021
290 kr
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The 1970s were a decade of historic American energy crises - major interruptions in oil supplies from the Middle East, the country's most dangerous nuclear accident, and chronic shortages of natural gas. In Energy Crises, Jay Hakes brings his expertise in energy and presidential history to bear on …
All the Water the Law Allows
Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics
Inbunden, 2021
471 kr
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As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal …
Ruling the Waters
California's Kern River, the Environment, and the Making of Western Water Law
Häftad, 2022
253 kr
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When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile …
Rodeo
An Animal History
Av Susan Nance
Häftad, 2022
283 kr
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"What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and the environment in the West, this book explores …
Open Pit Visible from the Moon
The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
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Situated among the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, Miners Ridge contains vast quantities of copper. Kennecott Copper Corporation’s plan to develop an open-pit mine there was, when announced in 1966, the first test of the mining provision of the …
Washington Apple
Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
Inbunden, 2022
411 kr
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In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple trees or purchased apples grown within a few hundred miles of their homes. Nowadays, in contrast, Americans buy mass-produced fruit in supermarkets, and roughly 70 …
Energy Crises
Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s
Av Jay Hakes
Häftad, 2022
289 kr
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The 1970s were a decade of historic American energy crises—major interruptions in oil supplies from the Middle East, the country’s most dangerous nuclear accident, and chronic shortages of natural gas. In Energy Crises, Jay Hakes brings his expertise in energy and presidential history to bear on …
Cow Talk Volume 8
Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West
Inbunden, 2023
761 kr
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The image of western ranchers making a stand for their “rights”—against developers, the government, “illegal” immigrants—may be commonplace today, but the political power of the cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the culture, traditions, and history of western range …
Cow Talk Volume 8
Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West
Häftad, 2023
341 kr
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The image of western ranchers making a stand for their “rights”—against developers, the government, “illegal” immigrants—may be commonplace today, but the political power of the cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the culture, traditions, and history of western range …
All the Water the Law Allows
Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics
Häftad, 2023
283 kr
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As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal …
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism Volume 9
Inbunden, 2024
1052 kr
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In the half century after World War II, California’s Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation’s most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures …
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism Volume 9
Häftad, 2024
341 kr
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In the half century after World War II, California’s Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation’s most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures …
Red Earth Nation Volume 10
A History of the Meskwaki Settlement
Inbunden, 2024
1110 kr
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In 1857, the Meskwaki (“Red Earth People”) Nation purchased an eighty-acre parcel of land along the Iowa River. With that modest plot secured as a place to rest and rebuild after centuries of devastation and dispossession, the Red Earth People began to reclaim their homeland—an effort that Native …
Red Earth Nation Volume 10
A History of the Meskwaki Settlement
Häftad, 2024
341 kr
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In 1857, the Meskwaki (“Red Earth People”) Nation purchased an eighty-acre parcel of land along the Iowa River. With that modest plot secured as a place to rest and rebuild after centuries of devastation and dispossession, the Red Earth People began to reclaim their homeland—an effort that Native …
Washington Apple Volume 7
Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
Häftad, 2024
297 kr
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In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple trees or purchased apples grown within a few hundred miles of their homes. Nowadays, in contrast, Americans buy mass-produced fruit in supermarkets, and roughly 70 …
