Power and Control in the Imperial Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Control in the Imperial Valley write by Benny J Andrés. This book was released on 2014-11-22. Power and Control in the Imperial Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby Colorado River to irrigate a million acres on both sides of the border. The “conquest” of the environment was a central theme in the history of the valley. Colonization in the valley began with the construction of a sixty-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River in California through Mexico. Initially, Mexico held authority over water delivery until settlers persuaded Congress to construct the All-American Canal. Control over land and water formed the basis of commercial agriculture and in turn enabled growers to use the state to procure inexpensive, plentiful immigrant workers.
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Control in the Imperial Valley write by Benny J Andrés. This book was released on 2014-11-27. Power and Control in the Imperial Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby Colorado River to irrigate a million acres on both sides of the border. The “conquest” of the environment was a central theme in the history of the valley. Colonization in the valley began with the construction of a sixty-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River in California through Mexico. Initially, Mexico held authority over water delivery until settlers persuaded Congress to construct the All-American Canal. Control over land and water formed the basis of commercial agriculture and in turn enabled growers to use the state to procure inexpensive, plentiful immigrant workers.
Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California
Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California write by Benny Joseph Andres. This book was released on 2003. Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Settler Sea
The Settler Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Settler Sea write by Traci Brynne Voyles. This book was released on 2021-11. The Settler Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyles's history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers' work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern California's largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called "America's Sahara." The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water has been considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea's very precariousness--the way it sits uncomfortably between worlds, existing always in the interstices of human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted water--is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.
Energy Research Abstracts
Energy Research Abstracts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Energy Research Abstracts write by . This book was released on 1982. Energy Research Abstracts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
