Reviews
"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, "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, Praise forMining California(hardcover edition): "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 ofSomething 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 Californiais 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 Californiaoffers sobering reading on the consequences of unchecked expansion." ---San FranciscoChronicle, 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., 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., Superbly Written. this Excellent Read, a Model for Future Studies, Deserves Highest Recommendations., 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., "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 ofSomething 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 Californiais 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 Californiaoffers sobering reading on the consequences of unchecked expansion."-San FranciscoChronicle