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Author:
Wehr, Kevin, 1972-
Title:
America's fight over water : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems / Kevin Wehr.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2004
Description:
xii, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
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.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: 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.
Series:
Studies in American popular history and culture
ISBN:
9780415949309
0415949300 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)54759222
LCCN:
2004005112
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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