Kevin Wehr

America's Fight Over Water (eBook, PDF)

The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135932497
• Artikelnr.: 43073445

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.