Southern water, southern power : how the politics of cheap energy and water scarcity shaped a region / Christopher J. Manganiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manganiello, Christopher J., 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Political aspects--Southern States.

Water-supply.

Dams--Southern States--Design and construction--History.

Dams.

River engineering--Southern States--History.

River engineering.

Water resources development--Social aspects--Southern States.

Water resources development.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why has the American South become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did the region become derailed by drought and regional squabbling? To answer these questions, Christopher J. Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water.

Contents:

Lowell of the South

Dam crazy for white coal in the new South

New Deal big dam consensus

A Keystone dam and Georgia's new ocean

Big dam backlash rising in the Sun Belt

Countryside conservatism and conservation

Taken and delivered : the Chattooga River.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890843661

9798890843678

9781469636023

1469636026

9781469623306

1469623307

OCLC:

905784906