TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fiege,Mark
TI  - Irrigated Eden: the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West 
T2  - Weyerhaeuser environmental books
SN  - 9780295989747
AV  - S616.U6 
U1  - 333.91/3/097961 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Irrigation farming
KW  - Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)
KW  - Idaho
KW  - Irrigation
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - Culture irriguée
KW  - Eau
KW  - Approvisionnement
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Real Estate
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Forestry
KW  - fast
KW  - Bewässerungswirtschaft
KW  - gnd
KW  - Landschaftsentwicklung
KW  - Irrigatie (waterhuishouding)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Landbouw
KW  - Landschappen
KW  - Lantbruk
KW  - historia
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - sao
KW  - Bevattning
KW  - United States
KW  - Snake River Valley
KW  - Snake River
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-305) and index; 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
N2  - "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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