Engineering nature : water, development & the global spread of Am erican environmental expertise - Teisch, Jessica B. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Introduction : California welcomes the world -- Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California mo del and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civi lizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiment s -- Conclusion : the common world destiny.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239) and index.
Keywords: Water resources development -- United States -- History; Mining engineering -- United States -- History; Water resources development -- History; Mining engineering -- History