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America's Fight Over Water Kevin Wehr (California State University)

America's Fight Over Water By Kevin Wehr (California State University)

America's Fight Over Water by Kevin Wehr (California State University)

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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.

America's Fight Over Water Summary

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

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.

About Kevin Wehr (California State University)

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 Mobias 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.

Additional information

NPB9780415949309
9780415949309
0415949300
America's Fight Over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems by Kevin Wehr (California State University)
Kevin Wehr (California State University)
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2004-08-21
284
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