Southern water, Southern power : how the politics of cheap energy and water scarcity shaped a region /

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Why has the American South become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did the region become derailed by drought and regional squabbling? To answer these questions, Christopher J. Manganiello moves beyond the well-kn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manganiello, Christopher J., 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Temas:
Water-supply > Political aspects > Southern States.
Dams > Southern States > Design and construction > History.
River engineering > Southern States > History.
Water resources development > Social aspects > Southern States.
Business & Economics.
Agricultural Economics.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Aspect politique > États-Unis (Sud)
Barrages > États-Unis (Sud) > Conception et construction > Histoire.
Technologie fluviale > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Ressources en eau > Exploitation > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Dams > Design and construction
Economic history
River engineering
Water resources development > Social aspects
Water-supply > Political aspects
Southern States > Economic conditions.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques.
Southern States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lowell of the South
  • Dam crazy for white coal in the new South
  • New Deal big dam consensus
  • A Keystone dam and Georgia's new ocean
  • Big dam backlash rising in the Sun Belt
  • Countryside conservatism and conservation
  • Taken and delivered : the Chattooga River.

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