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

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

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780295980133
  • DDC分類 333.91309796

Full Description

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

Contents

Foreword by William Cronon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Discovering the Irrigated Landscape

1) Genesis: Water, Earth, and Irrigation Systems

2) Habitat: The Irrigated Landscape and Its Biota

3) Dividing Water: Conflict, Cooperation, and Allocation on the Upper Snake River

4) Labor and Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture and Work

5) From Field to Market: Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape

6) Industrial Eden: Myth, Metaphor, and the Irrigated Landscape

7) Conclusion: A World in the making

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index