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"In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of 65,000, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Needham, Andrew, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Colección:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Temas:
Energy development.
Mines and mineral resources.
Renewable energy sources.
Renewable Energy
Énergie > Développement.
Énergies renouvelables.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mechanical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
American political economy.
Boulder Dam.
Colorado Plateau.
Colorado River.
Four Corners Power Plant.
Grand Canyon.
Hopi Nations.
Indian resources.
Mojave Generating Station.
Navajo Nation.
Navajo Nations.
Navajo Reservation.
Navajo economic modernization.
Navajo land.
Navajo nationalism.
Navajo nationalists.
Navajo reservation.
Navajo state.
New Deal policies.
New Deal.
New York Times.
Pacific Southwest Water Plan.
Peter MacDonald.
Phoenix.
Sierra Club.
Valley of the Sun.
agriculture.
air pollution.
clean factories.
climate change.
climate-controlled lifestyles.
coal industry.
coal mines.
coal.
conservationist groups.
debt-driven consumption.
economic development.
electrical utilities.
electricity demand.
electricity power lines.
electricity.
employment.
energy.
environmentalism.
flowing electricity.
flowing water.
geographic changes.
growth liberalism.
industrial boom.
industrial garden.
industrial landscape.
industrial modernity.
infrastructure.
infrastructures.
manufacturing industries.
manufacturing.
mass consumption.
metropolitan consumption.
metropolitan demands.
metropolitan growth.
national economy.
personal consumption.
political power.
postwar America.
postwar American political economy.
postwar American politics.
postwar environmental change.
postwar inequality.
postwar metropolitan development.
postwar political change.
postwar urban change.
power lines.
power plants.
power.
private companies.
public lands.
social inequality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier
  • Part I: Fragments. Chapter 1: A Region of Fragments
  • Part II: Demand
  • Chapter 2: The Valley of the Sun
  • Chapter 3: Turquoise and Turboprops
  • PART III: Supply. Chapter 4: Modernizing the Navajo
  • Chapter 5: Integrating Geographies
  • Part IV: Protest. Chapter 6: The Living River
  • Chapter 7: A Piece of the Action
  • Conclusion: "Good Bye, Big Sky": Coal and Postwar America
  • Abbreviations of Sources and Collections
  • Notes
  • Index.

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