Title Water in North American Environmental History

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (305 p.) Series Themes in Environmental History Ser Themes in environmental history (Routledge (Firm)) Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Water and Borders -- Water and Adaptation -- Water and Community -- Water as Transportation -- Water and Energy -- Water as Commodity and Water as a Right -- Water, Race, Gender, and Class -- Water as a Destructive Force -- Notes -- Part I: Indigenous Peoples Before Contact -- 1. The Hohokam: ""The Canal Builders"" of the American Southwest -- Notes and Further Reading -- 2. The Aztecs and the Founding of Tenochtitlan -- Notes and Further Reading 3. The Inuit, Sea Ice, and Snow -- Notes and Further Reading -- Part II: Colonialization and Early-Industrial Growth -- 4. Acequias and Spanish Water Law -- Notes and Further Reading -- 5. The Origins of Commercial Fishing in Newfoundland -- Notes and Further Reading -- 6. From Waterwheels to Steam Engines -- Notes and Further Reading -- Part III: Expansionism and Western Settlement -- 7. The California Gold Rush: Placer and Hydraulic Mining -- Notes and Further Reading -- 8. Capricious Border: The Rio Grande River -- Notes and Further Reading -- Part IV: Commerce, Industry, and Urban Growth Notes -- 9. Philadelphia's Waterworks: Pioneering Clean Water for Cities -- Notes and Further Reading -- 10. Water Rerouted: The Erie Canal -- Notes and Further Reading -- 11. Building the Toronto Waterfront -- Notes and Further Reading -- 12. The Lure of Falling Water: Niagara Falls -- Further Reading -- Part V: The Mid-Twentieth Century -- 13. The Houston Ship Channel's Environmental Footprint -- Notes and Further Reading -- 14. ""Levees-Only"" in Louisiana and the Great Mississippi Flood -- Notes and Further Reading -- 15. Salmon, Hydropower, and the Fraser River -- Notes and Further Reading Part VI: The Postwar Years -- 16. Racism and Civil Rights in American/Canadian Swimming Pools -- Notes and Further Reading -- 17. Detergent Phosphates in the Great Lakes -- Notes and Further Reading -- 18. The Fluoride Controversy -- Notes and Further Reading -- 19. Hurricane Hazel: In Canada -- Notes and Further Reading -- Part VII: The New Ecology -- Notes -- 20. Mexico's Ixtoc 1 Oil Spill -- Notes and Further Reading -- 21. The Ogallala Aquifer in Decline -- Notes and Further Reading -- 22. Water Management and Privatization in Modern Mexico -- Notes and Further Reading Part VIII: Social Crises/Environmental Injustices -- Notes -- 23. The Flint Water Crisis -- Notes and Further Reading -- 24. Maquiladoras and Water Pollution -- Notes and Further Reading -- 25. To Frack or Not To Frack in Mexico -- Notes and Further Reading -- Postscript: Climate and Water -- Notes and Further Reading -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Water resources development -- North America -- History Hydraulic engineering -- North America -- History Hydraulic engineering Water resources development North America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000592580 1000592588

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