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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Kaituhi matua: Wehr, Kevin, 1972- (Author)
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I whakaputaina: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Rangatū:American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Urunga tuihono:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=115123
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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.