Teisch, Jessica B. <br/><br/>
Engineering nature :  water, development & the global spread of Am erican environmental expertise / 
Jessica B. Teisch. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,   c2011. 
 - 260 p. :  ill. ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807834435 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834432 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807871768 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807871761 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010-029268 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Water resources development-- History.--United States<br/>Mining engineering-- History.--United States<br/>Water resources development-- History.<br/>Mining engineering-- History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.70973