The fight over water in the American West -- Political and environmental sociology: the dialectic of society and nature -- Water in the American West -- In the beginning there was Boulder: a natural menace becomes a natural resource -- Grand Coulee: "mightiest thing ever built by man" -- Glen Canyon: last of the high dams -- DamNation: controlling the waters, civilizing the wilderness
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index
