Mining California : an ecological history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Hill and Wang, [2005]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	California > Environmental conditions > History. Nature > Effect of human beings on > California.

Table of Contents:

The political economy of California industrialization
The alchemy of hydraulic mining : technology, law, and resource-intensive industrialization
Banking on Sacramento : urban development, flood control, and political legitimization
Capitalizing on nature : innovation and production in the redwood forests
Gambling on the grassland : kinship, capital, and ecology in Southern California
The enclosure of the plateau : land and labor in the high lake country
Epilogue : economic development and the California environment.