{"product_id":"mining-california-an-ecological-history-paperback","title":"Mining California: An Ecological History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew C. Isenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn environmental History of California during the Gold Rush\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot since William Cronon's\u003ci\u003e Nature's Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight--\"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe\"--to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew C. Isenberg \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 \u003c\/i\u003eand is a former fellow of the Huntington Library and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722848178239,"sku":"9780809069323","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8cf9d93a943e31965c48a0cdc1ce5491.webp?v=1765097163","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/mining-california-an-ecological-history-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}