Title America's Fight over Water : the Environment and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water

Published London : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages) Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: The Fight over Water in the American West; Chapter Two Political and Environmental Sociology: The Dialectic of Society and Nature; Chapter Three Water in the American West; Chapter Four In the Beginning There Was Boulder: A Natural Menace Becomes a Natural Resource; Chapter Five Grand Coulee: "Mightiest Thing Ever Built by Man"; Chapter Six Glen Canyon: The Last of the High Dams; Chapter Seven DamNation: Controlling the Waters, Civilizing the Wilderness '; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Water resources development -- Political aspects -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies Water resources development -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies Water resources development -- Environmental aspects Water resources development -- Political aspects Water resources development -- Social aspects SUBJECT Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001696 Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061917 Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056384 Subject Arizona -- Glen Canyon Dam United States -- Hoover Dam West United States Washington (State) -- Grand Coulee Dam Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203307892 0203307895

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