A river in the City of Fountains : an environmental history of Kansas City and the Missouri River /

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"In A River in the City of Fountains, Amahia Mallea brings the Missouri River to the forefront of Kansas City's history and shows how deeply the two are entwined. The river has always been ubiquitous, its waters found in pipes, toilets, fountains, breweries, and fire hoses--and yet, unlike...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MALLEA, AMAHIA
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] UNIV PR OF KANSAS, 2018.
Subjects:
Water-supply > Missouri > Kansas City.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Missouri > Kansas City.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Water-supply
Missouri River.
Kansas City (Mo.)
Missouri (Rivière)
Missouri > Kansas City
Missouri River
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to health and wealth
  • A view from the bluffs, 1903
  • Drinking the water
  • Sewers: the waste stream
  • Sister cities
  • Social innards
  • A broader vision
  • A view from the bluffs, 1951
  • Downstreamers and postwar pollution in a federal era
  • Concluding with a view from the river
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back matter.

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