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Author Wehr, Kevin, 1972-

Title America's fight over water : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems / Kevin Wehr.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in American popular history and culture
American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Water resources development -- Political aspects -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies.
Water resources development -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Water resources development.
Water resources development -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies.
Water resources development -- Social aspects.
Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies.
Water resources development -- Environmental aspects.
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Wehr, Kevin, 1972- America's fight over water. New York : Routledge, 2004 0415949300 (DLC) 2004005112 (OCoLC)54759222
ISBN 0203307895 (electronic book)
9780203307892 (electronic book)
0415949300 (Cloth)