America's fight over water: the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems
New York
Routledge
c2004
xii, 272 p. : ill., maps
Studies in American popular history and culture
Includes bibliographical references )p.251-264( and index
Kevin Wehr
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
Case studies ، Water resources development - West )U.S.( - Political aspects
Case studies ، Water resources development - West )U.S.( - Social aspects
Case studies ، Water resources development - West )U.S.( - Environmental aspects