Book ID: CBB001230810

Engineering Nature: Water, Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise (2011)

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Teisch, Jessica B. (Author)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 260 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Focuses on globalization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


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Essay Review Josephson, Paul (2013) Science and Technology in the International Arena. Diplomatic History (pp. 624-627). unapi

Review Sutter, Paul S. (2012) Review of "Engineering Nature: Water, Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise". Technology and Culture (p. 221). unapi

Review Harper, Kristine C. (2012) Review of "Engineering Nature: Water, Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 203). unapi

Essay Review Josephson, Paul (2013) Science and Technology in the International Arena. Diplomatic History (pp. 624-627). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Giuliano Pinto
Alberto Malvolti
Stroshane, Tim
Livio Petriccione
Rodrigues, Ana Duarte
Francesco Chinellato
Journals
Environmental History
Technology and Culture
Journal of Historical Geography
Publishers
Olschki
@racne
Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese
Edizioni Caracol
University Press of Colorado
University of Wisconsin Press
Concepts
Environmental history
Natural resource management
Water resource management
Ecology
Water
Environmental sciences
People
Vogt, William
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
17th century
Places
United States
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
South Asia
Maine (U.S.)
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