Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Settler SeaCondition: NewSubtitle: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of ColonialismISBN-10: 1496216733EAN: 9781496216731ISBN: 9781496216731Publisher: University of Nebraska PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/01/2021Description: 2022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyles’s history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers’ work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern California’s largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called “America’s Sahara.” The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuillas and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water is considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea’s very precariousness—existing always in the interstices of human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted water—is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Traci Brynne VoylesGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Many WestsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Settler Sea
Title: The Settler Sea
Subtitle: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
ISBN-10: 1496216733
EAN: 9781496216731
ISBN: 9781496216731
Release Date: 11/01/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 382 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Settler Sea : California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 25.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Traci Brynne Voyles
Subject Area: Nature, Science, History
Series: Many Wests Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
