Organic Machine

"Visionary . . . White has posed a brilliant new model for environmental history." --Howard R. Lamar, Yale University

"A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America." --Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"White has done something remarkable: he has shown us a way of thinking that connects our deep history to the present and sees our most essential human habits--work, in this case--as inseparable from the places we inhabit." --Elliott West, University of Arkansas Visionary . . . White has posed a brilliant new model for environmental history. "Howard R. Lamar, Yale University"

A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America. "Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"

White has done something remarkable: he has shown us a way of thinking that connects our deep history to the present and sees our most essential human habits--work, in this case--as inseparable from the places we inhabit. "Elliott West, University of Arkansas"" "Visionary . . . White has posed a brilliant new model for environmental history."--Howard R. Lamar, Yale University "A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America."--Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "White has done something remarkable: he has shown us a way of thinking that connects our deep history to the present and sees our most essential human habits--work, in this case--as inseparable from the places we inhabit."--Elliott West, University of Arkansas