Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

כריכה קדמית
University of Washington Press, 23 בנוב׳ 2009 - 320 עמודים

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

 

תוכן

Discovering the Irrigated Landscape
3
Water Earth and Irrigation Systems
11
The Irrigated Landscape and Its Biota
42
Conflict Cooperation and Allocation on the Upper Snake River
81
Irrigated Agriculture and Work
117
Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape
143
Myth Metaphor and the Irrigated Landscape
171
A World in the Making
203
Notes
211
Selected Bibliography
277
Index
307
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עמוד 279 - See Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp.

מידע על המחבר (2009)

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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