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America's fight over water the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wehr, Kevin, 1972-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects:
Water resources development > Political aspects > West (U.S.) > Case studies.
Water resources development > Social aspects > West (U.S.) > Case studies.
Water resources development > Environmental aspects > West (U.S.) > Case studies.
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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