Mining California: An Ecological History.Mining California: An Ecological ecological emanating from or pertaining to ecology. ecological biome see biome. ecological climax the state of balance in an ecosystem when its inhabitants have established their permanent relationships with each History Andrew C. Isenberg Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10003 0809095351 $27.00 www.fsgbooks.com Plenty has been written about the gold mining years in California--but none from this perspective, which discusses ecological results of the gold rush. Between 1849 and 1874 almost a billion dollars in gold was mined in California, promoting American industrialization industrialization Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. The changes that took place in Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th century led the way for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and and producing a heavy toll on the environment. From tons of poison poison, any agent that may produce chemically an injurious or deadly effect when introduced into the body in sufficient quantity. Some poisons can be deadly in minute quantities, others only if relatively large amounts are involved. washed into California's rivers to overall logging and other resource exploitation, MINING CALIFORNIA: AN ECOLOGICAL HISTORY provides a set of economic, social and business insights into the gold rush's lasting effects on California's environment. |
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