America's fight over water [electronic resource] : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems / Kevin Wehr.

By: Wehr, Kevin, 1972-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xii, 272 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): 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.)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 333.91/62/0979 LOC classification: HD1695.W4 | W38 2004Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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