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

ISBN-13: 9780415949309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 284 str.

Kevin Wehr; Wehr Wehr; 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.