TY - BOOK AU - Teisch, Jessica B. TI - Engineering nature: water, development & the global spread of Am erican environmental expertise SN - 9780807834435 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 333.70973 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Water resources development KW - United States KW - History KW - Mining engineering N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy11pdf04/20 10029268.html ER -