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Irrigated Eden : the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West / Mark Fiege ; foreword by William Cronon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Weyerhaeuser environmental bookPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 323 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295989747
  • 0295989742
  • 9780295977577
  • 0295977574
  • 0295980133
  • 9780295980133
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Irrigated EdenDDC classification:
  • 333.91/3/097961 21
LOC classification:
  • S616.U6
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • RU 10672
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword by William Cronon -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Discovering the irrigated landscape -- Genesis: water, earth, and irrigation systems -- Habitat: the irrigated landscape and its biota -- Dividing water: conflist, cooperation, and allocation on the upper Snake River -- Labor and landscape: Irrigated agriculture and work -- From field to market: agricultural production in the irrigated landcape -- Industrial Eden: myth, metaphor, and the irrigated landscape -- Conclusion: World in the making -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Review: "Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Flege's 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 their 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 is an unusual and absorbing work, important to anyone interested in western U.S. history, environmental history, or the human-nature relationship."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-305) and index.

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Foreword by William Cronon -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Discovering the irrigated landscape -- Genesis: water, earth, and irrigation systems -- Habitat: the irrigated landscape and its biota -- Dividing water: conflist, cooperation, and allocation on the upper Snake River -- Labor and landscape: Irrigated agriculture and work -- From field to market: agricultural production in the irrigated landcape -- Industrial Eden: myth, metaphor, and the irrigated landscape -- Conclusion: World in the making -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

"Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Flege's 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 their 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 is an unusual and absorbing work, important to anyone interested in western U.S. history, environmental history, or the human-nature relationship."--Jacket.

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