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