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ISBN 10: 0203307895
ISBN 13: 9780203307892
Author: Kevin Wehr
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: THE FIGHT OVER WATER IN THE AMERICAN WEST
THE STRUCTURE OF THE COMING CHAPTERS
CHAPTER TWO POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY: THE DIALECTIC OF SOCIETY AND NATURE
DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY
NATURE AND SOCIETY: DOMINATION, GENDER, MODERNITY
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: STATE POWER, NATURE, AND TERRITORIALIZATION
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY: THE DIALECTIC OF NATURE AND SOCIETY
CONCLUSION: THE STATE OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF THE STATE, A DIALECTICAL THEORY OF NATURE AND THE STATE
CHAPTER THREE WATER IN THE AMERICAN WEST
HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WATER AND THE AMERICAN WEST
PROGRESSIVISM, CONSERVATION, AND WESTERN HISTORY
THE NEW DEAL AND CONSERVATION
PERIODIZING THE RECLAMATION OF THE WEST
CHAPTER FOUR IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS BOULDER: A NATURAL MENACE BECOMES A NATURAL RESOURCE
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF BOULDER DAM
THE DISCOURSE ON NATURE AT BOULDER DAM
BOOSTING BOULDER: THE DISCOURSE OF IMPERIAL HIGH MODERNIST STATE BUILDING
OPPOSITION TO BOULDER DAM: THE DEFENSIVEMODERNIST DISCOURSE OF ELITE DETRACTORS
CONCLUSION: CHANGING A MENACE TO A RESOURCE
CHAPTER FIVE GRAND COULEE: “MIGHTIEST THING EVER BUILT BY MAN”
THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF GRAND COULEE DAM
DISCOURSES AT GRAND COULEE
GRAND BEGINNINGS: THE PUMPING PLAN AND THE GRAVITY PLAN
IMPERIALISTIC DISCOURSES: IRRIGATED EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
THE HEBRAIC DISCOURSE: PIONEERS IN A CHOSEN LAND
NATIONAL DISCOURSE ABOUT GRAND COULEE: ‘THE EIGHTH WORLD WONDER’
GOVERNMENTAL DISCOURSE I: CONGRESS, THE CORPS, AND THE BUREAU
GOVERNMENTAL DISCOURSE II: THE PRESIDENT AND THE PROTESTOR
CONCLUSION: ROLL ON COLUMBIA
CHAPTER SIX GLEN CANYON: THE LAST OF THE HIGH DAMS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AN GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF GLEN CANYON DAM
HARNESSING THE COLORADO: THE BUREAU’S GRAND PLAN
CHANTING DOWN ECHO PARK
THE GLEN CANYON COMPROMISE: THE PLACE NO ONE KNEW
COOPTING THE ENVIRONMENTALIST DISCOURSE: THE JEWEL OF THE COLORADO
CONCLUSION: EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION AND THE COMPLEXITY OF HEGEMONY
CHAPTER SEVEN DAMNATION: CONTROLLING THE WATERS, CIVILIZING THE WILDERNESS
STATE BUILDING IN THE AMERICAN WEST: CULTURE, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY
A TREADMILL OF PRODUCTION ON SOUTHERN FRONTIERS
UNINTENDED NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
A CIVILIZED WILDERNESS?
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