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

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

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

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

by Kevin Wehr

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135932480
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/01/2005
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 284
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Kevin Wehr is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the California State University, Sacramento.

Table of Contents

Part One: Departures  1. Introduction  2. Political and Environmental Sociology: The Möbias Strip of Society and Nature  3. Water in the American West  Part Two: Investigations  4. In the Beginning There was Boulder: A Natural Menace Becomes a Natural Resource  5. Grand Coulee: 'Mightiest Thing Ever Built by Man'  6. Glen Canyon: Last of the High Dams  7. Conclusion: Toward an Arrival.  Maps.  References.
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