Jared Orsi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jared Orsi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jared |
| FAMILY NAME | Orsi |
| SIGNATURE | ORSI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Where We Belong
Heading Out
Terence Young. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. xi and 367 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978080145402).Occasionally, a book comes along on a topic
Construction and Contestation
Borderlands history is a burgeoning field that churns out dozens of important monographs every year. Despite their individual insights, these works collectively lack conceptual glue to hold them together as a field. Using US‐Mexican border historiography as a case study, this article synthesizes recent scholarship to extract an emerging but as yet not fully articulated methodology that unites much of the field's scholarship of the last decade. Re…
Hazardous Metropolis
Journal Article Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles Get access Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. By Orsi Jared. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Greg Hise Greg Hise University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, …
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Fluid Arguments
Water— or the lack of it— has shaped the contours of the American West and continues to dominate the region's development. From the incursions of the Spanish conquistadores to the dams of the New Deal era, humans have sought water in these arid lands as the key to survival and success. And as the West becomes more urbanized, water is an issue as never before. This book sets contemporary and often bitter debates over water in their historical cont…
Energy and the Making of Modern California
Energy and the Making of Modern California by James C. Williams
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 797 The story Heymann presents is structured around the four ele ments mentioned above: the role of costs, structural problems, tech nical problems, and national technological traditions. This ap proach enables him to explain quite convincingly in his concluding chapter the paradox ofwind energy in the 20th century. It also dem onstrates the power of his sociotechnical approach. The bulk of the book is more…
Construction and Contestation
Borderlands history is a burgeoning field that churns out dozens of important monographs every year. Despite their individual insights, these works collectively lack conceptual glue to hold them together as a field. Using US‐Mexican border historiography as a case study, this article synthesizes recent scholarship to extract an emerging but as yet not fully articulated methodology that unites much of the field's scholarship of the last decade. Re…
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Energy and the Making of Modern California
Energy and the Making of Modern California by James C. Williams
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 797 The story Heymann presents is structured around the four ele ments mentioned above: the role of costs, structural problems, tech nical problems, and national technological traditions. This ap proach enables him to explain quite convincingly in his concluding chapter the paradox ofwind energy in the 20th century. It also dem onstrates the power of his sociotechnical approach. The bulk of the book is more…
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Fluid Arguments
Water— or the lack of it— has shaped the contours of the American West and continues to dominate the region's development. From the incursions of the Spanish conquistadores to the dams of the New Deal era, humans have sought water in these arid lands as the key to survival and success. And as the West becomes more urbanized, water is an issue as never before. This book sets contemporary and often bitter debates over water in their historical cont…
Hazardous Metropolis
Journal Article Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles Get access Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. By Orsi Jared. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Greg Hise Greg Hise University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, …
Construction and Contestation
Borderlands history is a burgeoning field that churns out dozens of important monographs every year. Despite their individual insights, these works collectively lack conceptual glue to hold them together as a field. Using US‐Mexican border historiography as a case study, this article synthesizes recent scholarship to extract an emerging but as yet not fully articulated methodology that unites much of the field's scholarship of the last decade. Re…
Heading Out
Terence Young. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. xi and 367 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978080145402).Occasionally, a book comes along on a topic
Where We Belong
History (5 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)