America's fight over water : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems /
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Serie: | American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=115123 |
Sommario:
- 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.