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9780415949309

America's Fight Over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415949309

  • ISBN10:

    0415949300

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-08-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction: The Fight over Water in the American West
1(8)
Political and Environmental Sociology: The Dialectic of Society and Nature
9(32)
Water in the American West
41(18)
In the Beginning There Was Boulder: A Natural Menace Becomes a Natural Resource
59(76)
Grand Coulee: ``Mightiest Thing Ever Built by Man''
135(52)
Glen Canyon: Last of the High Dams
187(38)
DamNation: Controlling the Waters, Civilizing the Wilderness
225(14)
Maps 239(4)
Notes 243(8)
Bibliography 251(14)
Index 265

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