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OverviewIrrigation 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Fiege , William CrononPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780295980133ISBN 10: 0295980133 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 01 July 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsFiege 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. --Choice 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. Choice For such a focused book, there is remarkable breath here. No one will go away from this book without having their view of irrigated landscapes enlarged and enriched. Washington State Magazine Author InformationMark 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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