"Superbly written. This excellent read, a model for future studies,
deserves highest recommendations." --D. Steeples, "Choice"; An
Outstanding Academic Title
"As entertaining as it is insightful, Isenberg's book does justice
to the dramatic ecological transformations California underwent in
the half century after the Gold Rush. This is environmental history
at its best." --J. R. McNeill, author of "Something New Under the
Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World"
"Andrew Isenberg's superb new book analyzes the ecological domino
effect set in motion by the California Gold Rush, which touched off
the cycles of environmental degradation the scale of which we can
only now fully appreciate. Filled with lessons and warnings,
"Mining California" is a timely and important book." --William
Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the
West
"The book offers a mother lode of descriptions of the sheer scale
of projects undertaken, and a keen portrait of the ecological
domino effect of new industries.... At a time when the state's
residency has been forecast to grow by 13 million in the next 25
years, with its population probably stretching into its farthest
regions, "Mining California" offers sobering reading on the
consequences of unchecked expansion." "--San Francisco""
Chronicle"
"Andrew Isenberg's superb new book analyzes the ecological domino
effect set in motion by the California Gold Rush, which touched off
the cycles of environmental degradation the scale of which we can
only now fully appreciate. Filled with lessons and warnings,
"Mining California" is a timely and important book." --Bill
Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the
West
"As entertaining as it is insightful, Isenberg's book does justice
to the dramatic ecological transformations California underwent in
the half century after the Gold Rush. This is environmental history
at its best." --J.R. McNeill, author of "Something New Under the
Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century World"
""
"Andrew Isenberg shoves rustic myths aside to reveal a Gold Rush
California that roared, buzzed, clanked, and trembled with
machines, and bore the cost in polluted rivers, denuded mountain
slopes, ruined ranches, and shattered Indian communities. Anyone
wanting to understand the industrial, social, and ecological
revolutions that constituted America's most famous economic boom
must read this elegant and provocative book." --Louis Warren,
University of California, Davis
""
""Praise for "The Destruction of the Bison"
"Elegant . . . A detailed, convincing instance of how civilizations
expand, it is profoundly instructive." --William H. McNeill, "The
New York Review ofBooks"
"Andrew Isenberg's superb new book analyzes the ecological domino
effect set in motion by the California Gold Rush, which touched off
the cycles of environmental degradation the scale of which we can
only now fully appreciate. Filled with lessons and warnings, Mining
California is a timely and important book." --Bill Deverell,
Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
& nbsp;
"As entertaining as it is insightful, Isenberg's book does justice
to the dramatic ecological transformations California underwent in
the half century after the Gold Rush.& nbsp; This is environmental
history at its best." --J.R. McNeill, author of Something New Under
the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century World
& nbsp;
"Andrew Isenberg shoves rustic myths aside to reveal a Gold Rush
California that roared, buzzed, clanked, and trembled with
machines, and bore the cost in polluted rivers, denuded mountain
slopes, ruined ranches, and shattered Indian communities. Anyone
wanting to understand the industrial, social, and ecological
revolutions that constituted America ' s most famous economic boom
must read this elegant and provocative book." --Louis Warren,
University of California, Davis
& nbsp;
Praise for The Destruction of the Bison
" Elegant . . . A detailed, convincing instance of how
civilizations expand, it is profoundly instructive. " -- William H.
McNeill, The New York Review ofBooks
"Andrew Isenberg's superb new book analyzes the ecological domino
effect set in motion by the California Gold Rush, which touched off
the cycles of environmental degradation the scale of which we can
only now fully appreciate. Filled with lessons and warnings,
"Mining California" is a timely and important book." --Bill
Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the
West
"As entertaining as it is insightful, Isenberg's book does justice
to the dramatic ecological transformations California underwent in
the half century after the Gold Rush. This is environmental history
at its best." --J.R. McNeill, author of "Something New Under the
Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century World"
""
"Andrew Isenberg shoves rustic myths aside to reveal a Gold Rush
California that roared, buzzed, clanked, and trembled with
machines, and bore the cost in polluted rivers, denuded mountain
slopes, ruined ranches, and shattered Indian communities. Anyone
wanting to understand the industrial, social, and ecological
revolutions that constituted America' s most famous economic boom
must read this elegant and provocative book." --Louis Warren,
University of California, Davis
""
""Praise for "The Destruction of the Bison":
" Elegant . . . A detailed, convincing instance of how
civilizations expand, it is profoundly instructive." -- William H.
McNeill, "The New York Review of Books"
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