TY  - GEN
T1  - Power Lines : Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
T2  - Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
A1  - Needham, Andrew, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn891445868
AB  - "In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of 65,000, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and other cities. Exploring the postwar developments of these two very different landscapes, this book tells the story of the far-reaching environmental and social inequalities of metropolitan growth, and the roots of the contemporary coal-fueled climate change crisis. The book explains how inexpensive electricity became a requirement for modern life in Phoenix—driving assembly lines and cooling the oppressive heat. Navajo officials initially hoped energy development would improve their lands too, but as ash piles marked their landscape, air pollution filled the skies, and almost half of Navajo households remained without electricity, many Navajos came to view power lines as a sign of their subordination in the Southwest. Drawing together urban, environmental, and Native American history, the book demonstrates how power lines created unequal connections between distant landscapes and how environmental changes associated with suburbanization reached far beyond the metropolitan frontier. The book also offers a new account of postwar inequality, arguing that residents of the metropolitan periphery suffered similar patterns of marginalization as those faced in America's inner cities. Telling how coal from Indian lands became the fuel of modernity in the Southwest, the book explores the dramatic effects that this energy system has had on the people and environment of the region."--Oxford Academic
OP  - 335
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - TK1001
SN  - 9781400852406
SN  - 1400852404
SN  - 9780691139067
SN  - 0691139067
KW  - Energy development.
KW  - Mines and mineral resources.
KW  - Renewable energy sources.
KW  - Renewable Energy
KW  - Énergie : Développement.
KW  - Énergies renouvelables.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Mechanical.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
KW  - Energy development
KW  - Mines and mineral resources
KW  - Renewable energy sources
KW  - American political economy.
KW  - Boulder Dam.
KW  - Colorado Plateau.
KW  - Colorado River.
KW  - Four Corners Power Plant.
KW  - Grand Canyon.
KW  - Hopi Nations.
KW  - Indian resources.
KW  - Mojave Generating Station.
KW  - Navajo Nation.
KW  - Navajo Nations.
KW  - Navajo Reservation.
KW  - Navajo economic modernization.
KW  - Navajo land.
KW  - Navajo nationalism.
KW  - Navajo nationalists.
KW  - Navajo reservation.
KW  - Navajo state.
KW  - New Deal policies.
KW  - New Deal.
KW  - New York Times.
KW  - Pacific Southwest Water Plan.
KW  - Peter MacDonald.
KW  - Phoenix.
KW  - Sierra Club.
KW  - Valley of the Sun.
KW  - agriculture.
KW  - air pollution.
KW  - clean factories.
KW  - climate change.
KW  - climate-controlled lifestyles.
KW  - coal industry.
KW  - coal mines.
KW  - coal.
KW  - conservationist groups.
KW  - debt-driven consumption.
KW  - economic development.
KW  - electrical utilities.
KW  - electricity demand.
KW  - electricity power lines.
KW  - electricity.
KW  - employment.
KW  - energy.
KW  - environmentalism.
KW  - flowing electricity.
KW  - flowing water.
KW  - geographic changes.
KW  - growth liberalism.
KW  - industrial boom.
KW  - industrial garden.
KW  - industrial landscape.
KW  - industrial modernity.
KW  - infrastructure.
KW  - infrastructures.
KW  - manufacturing industries.
KW  - manufacturing.
KW  - mass consumption.
KW  - metropolitan consumption.
KW  - metropolitan demands.
KW  - metropolitan growth.
KW  - national economy.
KW  - personal consumption.
KW  - political power.
KW  - postwar America.
KW  - postwar American political economy.
KW  - postwar American politics.
KW  - postwar environmental change.
KW  - postwar inequality.
KW  - postwar metropolitan development.
KW  - postwar political change.
KW  - postwar urban change.
KW  - power lines.
KW  - power plants.
KW  - power.
KW  - private companies.
KW  - public lands.
KW  - social inequality.
KW  - Electronic book.
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