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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I first encountered what was then the burgeoning field of environmental history in 1993, while enrolled as an undergraduate in a course taught by Caroline Karp at Brown University. Engineering Nature is, in some ways, an outgrowth of the questions about the relationship between people and the natural world I grappled with at that time. Although the field has become decidedly more complex and this book shares a broader scope with many disciplines, the fundamental economic, social, technical, and cultural questions about our relationship to our environment persist. Among the many people I wish to thank for making this book possible, Carolyn Merchant and Michael Johns are the first. Much appreciation also goes to Carl Abbott, Marc Cioc, David Igler, Char Miller, Donald Pisani, Charles Postel, Mary Ryan, Michael Watts, Wendy Wolford, the dedicated staff at the Bancroft Libraryat the Universityof California at Berkeley, Mark Simpson-Vos and the editors at the University of North Carolina Press, and my wonderful family—my parents, Joel and Fran; my sisters, Rachel and Abby; and my husband, Michael, and our son, Jonah. Finally, this book— and the travels on which I embarked whilewriting it—would not have been possible without the generosity of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education and the Bancroft Library Research Award. This page intentionally left blank ...

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