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An 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. The 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

Author

Andrew Christian Isenberg

Publisher

New York: Hill and Wang

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809095353

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Nature