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Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest
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Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest / David N. Cassuto.
ISBN
0472097563 (alk. paper)
0472067567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
Physical Description
viii, 206 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
Contents
The birth of the hydraulic conflict
River wars : Los Angeles, the Owens Valley, and Mary Austin's The ford
Turning wine into water : water's crucial absence in The grapes of wrath
Waging water : hydrology versus mythology in The monkey wrench gang
The environmental system : Animal dreams and the rhetoric of environment
Imaging sustainability.
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