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Robert Kelley

Battling the Inland Sea

Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley

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Of late historians have become increasingly interested in the vast re-ordering of the environment involved in the creation of America. Nowhere was this more true than in the Sacramento Valley where re-ordering edged into folly. Battling the Inland Sea is a powerful evocation of the losses and gains involved in battling the mighty Sacramento River. But more than this, it is an exploration of the national will as it sought to rearrange nature herself with such mixed results. Here is history dealing with the most elemental forces of land, water and engineering as they are shaped by public policy. Here is the profound drama of value and symbol wh… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kennedy, David N. (Vorb.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-21428-6
  • EAN: 9780520214286
  • Produktnummer: 1402286
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
  • Seitenangabe: 420 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B14.9 cm 590 g
  • Abbildungen: Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor


Robert Kelley is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of The Shaping of the American Past and several other highly esteemed books.

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