Mining California: An Ecological History - Softcover

Isenberg, Andrew C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809069326 ISBN 13: 9780809069323

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2006

Synopsis

Title: Mining California( An Ecological History) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: AndrewC.Isenberg <>Publisher: Hill&Wang

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Review:

"Superbly written. This excellent read, a model for future studies, deserves highest recommendations." --D. Steeples, Choice; An Outstanding Academic Title

"As entertaining as it is insightful, Isenberg's book does justice to the dramatic ecological transformations California underwent in the half century after the Gold Rush. This is environmental history at its best." --J. R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

"Andrew Isenberg's superb new book analyzes the ecological domino effect set in motion by the California Gold Rush, which touched off the cycles of environmental degradation the scale of which we can only now fully appreciate. Filled with lessons and warnings, Mining California is a timely and important book." --William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

"The book offers a mother lode of descriptions of the sheer scale of projects undertaken, and a keen portrait of the ecological domino effect of new industries.... At a time when the state's residency has been forecast to grow by 13 million in the next 25 years, with its population probably stretching into its farthest regions, Mining California offers sobering reading on the consequences of unchecked expansion." --San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Andrew C. Isenberg is a professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 and is a former fellow of the Huntington Library and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0809069326
• ISBN 13: 9780809069323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254