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

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ENGINEERING NATURE The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill JESSICA B. TEISCH ENGINEERING NATURE Water, Development, & the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.© 2011 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker and set in Merlo, Gotham, and Clarendon by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Parts of this book have been reprinted with permission in revised form from “Sugar Economies in the Far West: California’s Hawaiian Outpost,” in Cities and Nature in the American West, edited by Char Miller (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2010), and “‘Home Is Not So Very Far Away’: Californian Engineers in South Africa, 1868–1915,” Australian Economic History Review 45, no. 2 (2005): 139–60. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Teisch, Jessica B. Engineering nature : water, development, and the global spread of American environmental expertise / Jessica B. Teisch p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8078-3443-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8078-7176-8 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Water resources development—United States—History. 2. Mining engineering—United States—History. 3. Water resources development— History. 4. Mining engineering—History. I. Title. HD1694.A5T37 2011 333.70973—dc22 2010029268 cloth 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 paper 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 To CAROLYN MERCHANT for her intellectual generosity and encouragement and MICHAEL JOHNS for his unflagging support, and in memory of my friend HAL K. ROTHMAN, who remains a source of inspiration This page intentionally left blank ...