Main Title |
Mining California : an ecological history / |
Author |
Isenberg, Andrew C.
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Publisher |
Hill and Wang, |
Year Published |
2005 |
OCLC Number |
57069109 |
ISBN |
0809095351 (alk. paper); 9780809095353 (alk. paper) |
Subjects |
California--Environmental conditions--History ;
Nature--Effect of human beings on--California ;
Natèurliche Ressourcen ;
Raubbau ;
Umweltschaden ;
Umweltverèanderung ;
Kalifornien
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ERAM |
GE155.C2 I84 2005 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
12/12/2011 |
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Edition |
1st ed. |
Collation |
242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index. |
Contents Notes |
The political economy of California industrialization -- The alchemy of hydraulic mining : technology, law, and resource-intensive industrialization -- Banking on Sacramento : urban development, flood control, and political legitimization -- Capitalizing on nature : innovation and production in the redwood forests -- Gambling on the grassland : kinship, capital, and ecology in Southern California -- The enclosure of the plateau : land and labor in the high lake country -- Epilogue : economic development and the California environment. An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush. Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile--rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. --Publisher. |
Place Published |
New York |
PUB Date Free Form |
2005 |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2004025564 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20111206133051 |
Language |
eng |
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OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
03320cam 22005774a 45020 |