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Author : Frederick Doyle Kershner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book George Chaffey and the Irrigation Frontier written by Frederick Doyle Kershner and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Doyle Kershner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book George Chaffey and the Irrigation Frontiers written by Frederick Doyle Kershner and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Aloysius Alexander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life of George Chaffey written by Joseph Aloysius Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : J. A. ALEXANDER (of Melbourne.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Life of George Chaffey. A Story of Irrigation Beginnings in California and Australia ... With ... a Chapter on the Imperial Valley by H.T. Cory. [With Illustrations, Including Portraits.]. written by J. A. ALEXANDER (of Melbourne.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Alexander (of Melbourne.)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book The Life of George Chaffey. A Story of Irrigation Beginnings in California and Australia. With ... a Chapter on the Imperial Valley written by J. A. Alexander (of Melbourne.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Agriculture and the Farmer's Frontier written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J A. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Life of George Chaffey: a Story of Irrigation Beginning in California and Australia, by J. A. Alexander, with a Foreword by Stanley Melbourne Bruce, an Introduction by Elwood Mead, and a Chapter on the Imperial Valley, by H. T. Cory written by J A. Alexander and published by . This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Americans and the California D
ISBN 13 : 0195044878
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Americans and the California D. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles.
Author : J.R. McNeill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351939688
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Environmental History in the Pacific World written by J.R. McNeill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim, from New Zealand to Japan, to California, to Chile, and is the first work of environmental history to take this inclusive view of the Pacific basin. The focus is mainly on recent centuries but, as environmental history requires, at times the work also takes the very long view of millennia. Several of the articles seek to bring a broad Pacific perspective to bear on their subjects, while others use Pacific-basin examples to try to establish broader theoretical points of interest to all who are drawn to the study of the interactions between nature and culture. The book includes a bibliography of Pacific-basin environmental history and an introduction that aims to sketch the contours and possible future directions of the field.
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Publisher : Ardent Media
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Amercian History written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald J. Pisani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520326474
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book From the Family Farm to Agribusiness written by Donald J. Pisani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Robert Sauder
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874178010
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Yuma Reclamation Project written by Robert Sauder and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the arid American West, settlement was generally contingent on the availability of water to irrigate crops and maintain livestock and human residents. Early irrigation projects were usually the cooperative efforts of pioneer farmers, but by the early twentieth century they largely reflected federal intentions to create new farms out of the western public domain. The Yuma Reclamation Project, authorized in 1904, was one of the earliest federal irrigation projects initiated in the western United States and the first authorized on the Colorado River. Its story exemplifies the range of difficulties associated with settling the nation’s final frontier—the remaining irrigable lands in the arid West, including Indian lands—and illuminates some of the current issues and conflicts concerning the Colorado River. Author Robert Sauder’s detailed, meticulously researched examination of the Yuma Project illustrates the complex multiplicity of problems and challenges associated with the federal government’s attempt to facilitate homesteading in the arid West. He examines the history of settlement along the lower Colorado River from earliest times, including the farming of the local Quechan people and the impact of Spanish colonization, and he reviews the engineering problems that had to be resolved before an industrial irrigation scheme could be accomplished. The study also sheds light on myriad unanticipated environmental, economic, and social challenges that the government had to confront in bringing arid lands under irrigation, including the impact on the Native American population of the region.The Yuma Reclamation Project is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of federal reclamation endeavors in the West. It provides new and fascinating information about the history of the Yuma Valley and, as a case study of irrigation policy, it offers compelling insights into the history and consequences of water manipulation in the arid West.
Author : Joseph E. Stevens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806173971
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Hoover Dam written by Joseph E. Stevens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West. Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life. Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam’s foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers’ families; the dam builders’ gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor. Here, too, is an unforgettable cast of characters: Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Harry Morrison, the ambitious, headstrong construction executives who gambled fortune and fame on the Hoover Dam contract; Frank Crowe, the brilliant, obsessed field engineer who relentlessly drove the work force to finish the dam two and a half years ahead of schedule; Sims Ely, the irascible, teetotaling eccentric who ruled Boulder City, the straightlaced company town created for the dam workers by the federal government; and many more men and women whose courage and sacrifice, greed and frailty, made the dam’s construction a great human, as well as technological, adventure. Hoover Dam is a compelling, irresistible account of an extraordinary American epic.
Author : April R. Summitt
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322110
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Contested Waters written by April R. Summitt and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through a large amount of scientific data. One needs to be part hydrologist, geologist, economist, sociologist, anthropologist, and historian to fully understand the entire story. Despite this river's narrow size and meager flow, its tale is very large indeed." -From the conclusion The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. Contested Waters tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion. Beginning in prehistory and continuing into the present day, Contested Waters focuses on three important and often overlooked aspects of the river's use: the role of western water law in its over-allocation, the complexity of power relationships surrounding the river, and the concept of sustainable use and how it has been either ignored or applied in recent times. It is organized in two parts, the first addresses the chronological history of the river and long-term issues, while the second examines in more detail four specific topics: metropolitan perceptions, American Indian water rights, US-Mexico relations over the river, and water marketing issues. Creating a complete picture of the evolution of this crucial yet over-utilized resource, this comprehensive summary will fascinate anyone interested in the Colorado River or the environmental history of the Southwest.
Author : Prabhu Pingali
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315314045
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World written by Prabhu Pingali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world. This textbook provides a comprehensive review and assessment of the multi-faceted nature of agriculture and rural development, particularly in the developing world, where the greatest challenges occur. It is designed around five thematic parts: Agricultural Intensification and Technical Change; Political Economy of Agricultural Policies; Community and Rural Institutions; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health; and Future Relevance of International Institutions. Each chapter presents a detailed but accessible review of the literature on the specific topic and discusses the frontiers in research and institutional changes needed as societies adapt to the transformation processes. All authors are eminent scholars with international reputations, who have been actively engaged in the contemporary debates around agricultural development and rural transformation.
Author : University of California, Davis. Agricultural History Center
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Agricultural History written by University of California, Davis. Agricultural History Center and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920856
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book True Gardens of the Gods written by Ian Tyrrell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers attempted to remake the natural environment into an idealized garden landscape. As this cutting-edge history shows, an important result of this nineteenth-century effort to "renovate" nature was a far-reaching exchange of ideas between the United States—especially in California—and Australia. Ian Tyrrell demonstrates how Californians and Australians shared plants, insects, personnel, technology, and dreams, creating a system of environmental exchange that transcended national and natural boundaries. True Gardens of the Gods traces a new nineteenth-century environmental sensibility that emerged from the collision of European expansion with these frontier environments. Tyrrell traces historical ideas and personalities, provides in-depth discussions of introduced plants species (such as the eucalyptus and Monterey Pine), looks at a number of scientific programs of the time, and measures the impact of race, class, and gender on environmental policy. The book represents a new trend toward studying American history from a transnational perspective, focusing especially on a comparison of American history with the history of similar settler societies. Through the use of original research and an innovative methodology, this book offers a new look at the history of environmentalism on a regional and global scale.
