America's Fight Over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems / Edition 1

by Kevin Wehr

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:	9780415949309
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2004
Series:	Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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.