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Unreal City : Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West.
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nation Books,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781568584874 1568584873 1306774721 9781306774727 9781568587486 1568587481 |