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

ISBN-13: 9780415645805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Kevin Wehr

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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