Mining California An Ecological History

Name: Mining California An Ecological History
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ISBN: 9780809069323

ISBN-10: 0809069326

ISBN-13: 9780809069323

Edition: N/A

Authors: Andrew C. Isenberg

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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile-- rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon' s"…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 7/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction: The Political Economy of California Industrialization



The Nature of Industry



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



The Industrial Frontier



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


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index