Description: This Auction Is For The Softcover Book Shown In The Photos: "Irrigated Eden: The Making Of An Agricultural Landscape In The American West" By Mark Fiege. The Softcover Book Is In Good Reading Condition But It Has A "Used" Sticker On The Back Cover And Signs Of Reading Wear. The Book Comes From A Smoke Free Environment And It Has No Odors.About this productProduct InformationIrrigation 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, 1999-2000Product IdentifiersPublisherCarnegie Mellon University PressISBN-100295980133ISBN-139780295980133eBay Product ID (ePID)1715345Product Key FeaturesAuthorMark FiegePublication NameIrrigated Eden : the Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American WestFormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishFeaturesReprintSeriesWeyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.Publication Year1999TypeTextbookNumber of Pages320 PagesDimensionsItem Length9.2in.Item Height0.8in.Item Width6.2in.Item Weight19.2 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberWebEdition DescriptionReprintReviews"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."--ChoiceTable of ContentForeword 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 IndexTarget AudienceCollege AudienceTopicEnvironmental / Water Supply, Agriculture / Forestry, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Idaho, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General, Agriculture / IrrigationDewey Decimal333.91/3/097961Dewey Edition21IllustratedYesGenreTechnology & Engineering, History Shipping Is By Media Mail. Please email me with any questions or concerns. My goal is that you have a very pleasant and satisfactory Ebay experience.
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Publication Year: 1999
Language: English
Book Title: Irrigated Eden
Author: Mark Fiege
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