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America's fight over water : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems / Kevin Wehr.
Lippincott Library HD1695.W4 W38 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wehr, Kevin, 1972-
- Series:
- American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
- Studies in American popular history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water resources development--Political aspects--West (U.S.)--Case studies.
- Water resources development.
- Water resources development--Social aspects--West (U.S.)--Case studies.
- Water resources development--Environmental aspects--West (U.S.)--Case studies.
- Water resources development--Environmental aspects.
- Water resources development--Social aspects.
- Water resources development--Political aspects.
- Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.).
- Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.).
- Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.).
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the fight over water in the American West
- Political and environmental sociology: the dialectic of society and nature
- Water in the American west
- In the beginning there was Boulder: a natural menace becomes a natural resource
- Grand Coulee: "mightiest thing ever built by man"
- Glen Canyon: last of the high dams
- Damnation: controlling the waters, civilizing the wilderness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415949300
- OCLC:
- 54759222
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