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Canada and the United States

Andrew C. Isenberg. Mining California: An Ecological History. New York: Hill and Wang. 2005. Pp. 242. $27.00.

Andrew C. Isenberg's book consists of five case studies of the relationship between industry and the environment in nineteenth-century California. The first chapter looks at the impact of hydraulic mining on the rivers, farms, and towns of the Sacramento Valley from the 1850s into the 1880s. Mines in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada polluted rivers, blanketed farms with silt, choked the channels of the Sacramento River and its tributaries with debris, and threatened Marysville and Sacramento with floods. Chapter two discusses Sacramento's efforts at levee building and flood control during the 1850s and 1860s. The first levee was erected following the great flood of 1850. Chapter three examines the logging industry in the coastal redwood forests around Humboldt Bay, in far northern California, during the 1850s through the 1880s. Chapter four focuses on cattle ranching in southern California and the impact of drought on its rapid decline, particularly in the middle of the 1860s. The final chapter explores one of the most famous white-Indian conflicts in the West, the Modoc War of 1872–1873, which occurred near the border of California and Oregon. Isenberg considers it part of a transnational process of "cultural interaction" that resembled the enclosure movement in England.

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