To Reclaim a Divided West
Author | : Donald J. Pisani |
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Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 1992 |
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ISBN | : 9780608078694 |
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Author | : Donald J. Pisani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608078694 |
Author | : Donald J. Pisani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826313812 |
Author | : Donald J. Pisani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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A study in government, as well as the relationship between law and economic development in the American West, beginning with fights over water in the California gold fields and looking at water management during the next 50 years. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Sarah Deutsch |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496229568 |
To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country’s future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression’s end, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders—Deutsch attends to the region’s role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a “white man’s country.” While this racial formation was linked to claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the eve of World War II.
Author | : Robert L. Dorman |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780807846995 |
Dorman delves into the activities and writings of four early environmental philosophers, revealing how the intellectual literary efforts of Marsh and Thoreau led to the campaigns to institutionalize preservation and conservation of Muir and Powell.
Author | : Martin V. Melosi |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822977761 |
As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good. Melosi provides historical background on the construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply and wastewater systems in urban America. He cites budgetary constraints and the deterioration of existing water infrastructures as factors leading many municipalities to seriously consider the privatization of their water supply. Melosi also views the role of government in the management of, development of, and legal jurisdiction over America's rivers and waterways for hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and transportation access. Looking to the future, he compares the costs and benefits of public versus private water supply, examining the global movement toward privatization.
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : David P. Billington |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160728235 |
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Author | : David P. Billington |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0806157895 |
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of these important public works. By illuminating the mathematical analysis that supported large-scale dam construction, the authors also describe how and why engineers in the 1930s most often opted for massive gravity dams, whose design required enormous quantities of concrete or earth-rock fill for stability. Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically—and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2009 |
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