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America's fight over water the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems
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America's fight over water [electronic resource] : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems / Kevin Wehr.
ISBN
0415949300 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description
xii, 272 p. : ill., maps.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2017
Series
Studies in American popular history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.
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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