Irrigated Eden : the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West / Mark Fiege ; foreword by William Cronon.
Material type: TextSeries: Weyerhaeuser environmental bookPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999.Description: xv, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0295977574 (alk. paper)
- 9780295977577 (alk. paper)
- S616.U6 F54 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-305) and index.
Foreword by William Cronon -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Discovering the irrigated landscape -- Genesis: water, earth, and irrigation systems -- Habitat: the irrigated landscape and its biota -- Dividing water: conflist, cooperation, and allocation on the upper Snake River -- Labor and landscape: Irrigated agriculture and work -- From field to market: agricultural production in the irrigated landcape -- Industrial Eden: myth, metaphor, and the irrigated landscape -- Conclusion: World in the making -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.