Eric Boime
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Boime |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Boime |
| SIGNATURE | BOIME E |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River. By Beth Rose Middleton Manning
Upstream, in the author’s words, is a “call to action” (p. 176) in the pursuit of social justice for Maidu people. Its agenda is to underscore the need for Native Americans tribes to “have a seat at the table in natural resources decisions” (p. 13). The book’s central premise, that turn-of-the century development agencies routinely ignored native culture will surprise nobody, but its major offering, a thorough reading of archive allotment data pe…
Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River. By Kenna Lang Archer
Most historians will be familiar with Kenna Lang Archer’s themes regarding human interaction with Texas’s Brazos River: (a) the river had to be imagined before it was remade; (b) there were stark disconnections between ambitions and results; and (c) an abiding faith in both technology and the malleability of nature signaled profound human hubris. Archer’s protagonist nevertheless stands out as exceptional. First, “the Brazos is a western river wi…
National Moat, Regional Lifeline: The Campaign for the All-American Canal, 1917–1944
This article contends that the Colorado River Delta, an arid region and a border region, offers fresh insight into the intimate relationship between federal reclamation, nation building, and citizenship. Its primary focus is the campaign for the All-American Canal, which was authorized in the same legislation as the Hoover Dam. Both projects established the basin-wide hegemony of the Imperial Irrigation District and the Bureau of Reclamation, and…
Navigating the Fluid Boundary: The Lower Colorado River Steamboat Era, 1851-1877
In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, steamships plied the Lower Colorado River from the Gulf of Mexico to the present site of Hoover Dam. They were instrumental in fortifying southern Arizona and southeastern California, displacing the region's native inhabitants, facilitating westward migration, and appraising the terrain. During these years, steamship owners, operators, and passengers announced, enforced, and negotiated peripheral conf…
Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Colorado River Delta, the Yellow Peril, and the Movement for Federal Reclamation, 1901–1928
This article examines the intersections of race, nationalism, and water conservation policy. Such relationships, it argues, are particularly pronounced in the history of the Colorado River Delta, a border region and an arid region, especially in the discourse surrounding the international allocation of the river. It focuses on the intellectual underpinnings of federal reclamation leaders and their subscription to the tenets of the idea of "yellow…
Environmental History, the Environmental Movement, and the Politics of Power
While environmental history subsumes much more than the ‘environmental movement’, this movement remains standard, not to mention depressing, subject fodder in environmental history courses. This manuscript examines two emerging patterns in the historiography of environmental politics. The first is a vigorous focus on local, non‐traditional, ‘grass roots’ endeavors. These works spotlight unique and innovative coalitions that challenge the inevitab…
Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Colorado River Delta, the Yellow Peril, and the Movement for Federal Reclamation, 1901–1928
This article examines the intersections of race, nationalism, and water conservation policy. Such relationships, it argues, are particularly pronounced in the history of the Colorado River Delta, a border region and an arid region, especially in the discourse surrounding the international allocation of the river. It focuses on the intellectual underpinnings of federal reclamation leaders and their subscription to the tenets of the idea of "yellow…
Navigating the Fluid Boundary: The Lower Colorado River Steamboat Era, 1851-1877
In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, steamships plied the Lower Colorado River from the Gulf of Mexico to the present site of Hoover Dam. They were instrumental in fortifying southern Arizona and southeastern California, displacing the region's native inhabitants, facilitating westward migration, and appraising the terrain. During these years, steamship owners, operators, and passengers announced, enforced, and negotiated peripheral conf…
Environmental History, the Environmental Movement, and the Politics of Power
While environmental history subsumes much more than the ‘environmental movement’, this movement remains standard, not to mention depressing, subject fodder in environmental history courses. This manuscript examines two emerging patterns in the historiography of environmental politics. The first is a vigorous focus on local, non‐traditional, ‘grass roots’ endeavors. These works spotlight unique and innovative coalitions that challenge the inevitab…
Environmental History, the Environmental Movement, and the Politics of Power
While environmental history subsumes much more than the ‘environmental movement’, this movement remains standard, not to mention depressing, subject fodder in environmental history courses. This manuscript examines two emerging patterns in the historiography of environmental politics. The first is a vigorous focus on local, non‐traditional, ‘grass roots’ endeavors. These works spotlight unique and innovative coalitions that challenge the inevitab…
Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Colorado River Delta, the Yellow Peril, and the Movement for Federal Reclamation, 1901–1928
This article examines the intersections of race, nationalism, and water conservation policy. Such relationships, it argues, are particularly pronounced in the history of the Colorado River Delta, a border region and an arid region, especially in the discourse surrounding the international allocation of the river. It focuses on the intellectual underpinnings of federal reclamation leaders and their subscription to the tenets of the idea of "yellow…
National Moat, Regional Lifeline: The Campaign for the All-American Canal, 1917–1944
This article contends that the Colorado River Delta, an arid region and a border region, offers fresh insight into the intimate relationship between federal reclamation, nation building, and citizenship. Its primary focus is the campaign for the All-American Canal, which was authorized in the same legislation as the Hoover Dam. Both projects established the basin-wide hegemony of the Imperial Irrigation District and the Bureau of Reclamation, and…
Navigating the Fluid Boundary: The Lower Colorado River Steamboat Era, 1851-1877
In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, steamships plied the Lower Colorado River from the Gulf of Mexico to the present site of Hoover Dam. They were instrumental in fortifying southern Arizona and southeastern California, displacing the region's native inhabitants, facilitating westward migration, and appraising the terrain. During these years, steamship owners, operators, and passengers announced, enforced, and negotiated peripheral conf…
Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River. By Kenna Lang Archer
Most historians will be familiar with Kenna Lang Archer’s themes regarding human interaction with Texas’s Brazos River: (a) the river had to be imagined before it was remade; (b) there were stark disconnections between ambitions and results; and (c) an abiding faith in both technology and the malleability of nature signaled profound human hubris. Archer’s protagonist nevertheless stands out as exceptional. First, “the Brazos is a western river wi…
Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River. By Beth Rose Middleton Manning
Upstream, in the author’s words, is a “call to action” (p. 176) in the pursuit of social justice for Maidu people. Its agenda is to underscore the need for Native Americans tribes to “have a seat at the table in natural resources decisions” (p. 13). The book’s central premise, that turn-of-the century development agencies routinely ignored native culture will surprise nobody, but its major offering, a thorough reading of archive allotment data pe…
American Environmental and Regional History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)