Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West - Couverture rigide

Worster, Donald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 039451680X ISBN 13 : 9780394516806

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Worster Donald

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'It is of enormous help to those who campaign against giantism in water resource schemes in the developing world ... Worster writes vividly ... much of his material is carefully deconstructed documentation and if the quotations read as larger than life, so were the key actors ... it is for the reviewer (a scientist) to muse, after completing this magnificent and significant text, that the true value of Worster's critique is for all our futures, under scenarios of climate change and population growth.' Malcolm Newson, Ecumene 1994

...classic... (New Internationalist)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Donald Worster, who won the Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford, 1975), is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is also the author of The Ends of the Earth, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, and the forthcoming Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (Oxford, 1992).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 039451680X
• ISBN 13: 9780394516806
• Reliure: Relié