The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
Richard White explores how technology and industry remade the Columbia River, revealing the ecological costs of treating nature as machinery.
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The Organic Machine examines the transformation of the Columbia River through human engineering and economic development.
Richard White traces how technology, industry, and policy altered the river's natural systems over time.
The book highlights the tension between ecological processes and human efforts to control and exploit waterways.
It offers a critical perspective on the long-term consequences of treating rivers as machines rather than living systems.
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