Irrigated Eden

The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

Mark Fiege, William Cronon

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University of Washington Press
01 July 2000

Irrigation

Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege's fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho's Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces-one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.

Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999

Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000

By: Mark Fiege
Foreword by: William Cronon
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780295980133
ISBN 10: 0295980133
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 July 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovering the Irrigated Landscape 1) Genesis: Water, Earth, and Irrigation Systems 2) Habitat: The Irrigated Landscape and Its Biota 3) Dividing Water: Conflict, Cooperation, and Allocation on the Upper Snake River 4) Labor and Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture and Work 5) From Field to Market: Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape 6) Industrial Eden: Myth, Metaphor, and the Irrigated Landscape 7) Conclusion: A World in the making Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Mark Fiege is a professor of history and Wallace Stegner Endowed Chair in Western Studies at Montana State University. He is the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (UW Press, 2013) and Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (UW Press, 2000).

Reviews for Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

Fiege suggests that, no matter how we try to alter the natural world, the unexpected consequences of our actions will always come back to haunt us... He also offers new ways of thinking about the past and, possibly, new ways of thinking about how the future will unfold. The writing style is eloquent. Choice For such a focused book, there is remarkable breath here. No one will go away from this book without having their view of irrigated landscapes enlarged and enriched. Washington State Magazine