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000712123 1001_ $$aIsenberg, Andrew C.$$q(Andrew Christian)
000712123 24510 $$aMining California :$$ban ecological history /$$cAndrew Isenberg.
000712123 250__ $$a1st ed.
000712123 260__ $$aNew York :$$bHill and Wang,$$c2005.
000712123 300__ $$a242 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000712123 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index.
000712123 5050_ $$aThe 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.
000712123 520__ $$aAn environmental History of California during the Gold Rush. Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile--rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. --Publisher.
000712123 650_0 $$aNature$$xEffect of human beings on$$zCalifornia.
000712123 651_0 $$aCalifornia$$xEnvironmental conditions$$xHistory.
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