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Author : Judson King
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Conservation Fight written by Judson King and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judson King
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)
Download or read book The Conservation Fight, from Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority written by Judson King and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judson King
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ISBN 13 : 9781331406761
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Conservation Fight written by Judson King and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Conservation Fight: From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority "Here is history, authentic history, of a crucial period in American life and politics that has all the challenge and charm of drama, written by a leading actor in the drama. Here is the intimate story, by a participant, of how TVA ... came into being. "Judson King knew all the actors in the mighty TVA drama which started with the conservation movement in Teddy Roosevelt's day... His interest in popular government led him ultimately to the directorship of the National Popular Government League, established under the leadership of George Norris and Gifford Pinchot. One of the earliest interests of the League was establishment of initiative and referendum in each of the states. "Deeply concerned with popular control of America's natural resources, Judson King saw the potentialities for abundant, cheap hydroelectric power, combined with flood control, to serve citizens free from exploitation. The waste of waters of our swift rivers rushing to the sea without passing through turbines to generate low-cost electricity for our people - power unused in this age of science - was unendurable to him. Every fibre within him rebelled against such injustice to the public interest, whether it expressed itself in unsavory political practice, locally or nationally, or in some form of restrictive monopoly. "In this book, Judson King brings back to life for a new generation many episodes in the conservation movement and the fight for TVA, including the Federal Trade Commission inquiry into the nefarious practices of the private utilities which brought reforms in the 1930's... He pays his respects to the Corps of Army Engineers, too, and tells us the story of their opposition to the high dam development which became the core of cheap electric power... "More than a history of the birth pains of TVA, important as that is, this book is a history of a free people's fight to maintain control of one of their own natural resources, the waters of a great river system, to assure themselves and their posterity a better life. "Built by one generation, TVA and the conservation principles it represents must be cherished and preserved by another. Judson King has shown the way." - Benton J. Stong in the Foreword. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035272
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)
Download or read book TVA Photography, 19632008 written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs that document the evolution of a critical government agency
Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742578291
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement written by Tim Palmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dam proposal sparked the first great conservation battle in the United States when John Muir fought to safeguard Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Since then, people have worked to preserve free-flowing rivers from Florida to Alaska, and in doing so, they have changed the way natural resources are managed in America. In Endangered Rivers, Tim Palmer traces the growth of this movement and he chronicles the development of a national consciousness that values our rivers as lifelines for wildlife, fisheries, parks, wilderness, recreation, and communities. Based on careful research and hundreds of interviews, Palmer's information-packed narrative is regarded as a classic in the field of conservation. The first edition of this book is now updated and includes two new chapters that chart the course of conservation during the past twenty years and explore how the movement to protect rivers will likely change in the twenty-first century. This book will fascinate all who care about rivers and it will engage those who seek to understand environmental history, resources management, and the evolution of government programs in response to people's changing needs.
Author : Tennessee Valley Authority. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography for the TVA Program written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351880853
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program written by David A. Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the memoirs of Aelred J. Gray, former chief planner, this book reviews how the Tennessee Valley Agency (TVA) - a world-renowned model for regional planning and development - functioned and changed through the decades. It shows how the TVA pioneered land-use planning to create state parks alongside the Tennessee river's hydro-electric power stations and dams, how it developed model towns, influenced city planning and introduced the landmark Flood Damage Prevention program.
Author : David Perera Massell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773520332
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Amassing Power written by David Perera Massell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the tremendous hydro-electric potential of a remote river in Quebec. The damming of the Saguenay brought industrialisation on a grand scale to rural Quebec in the form of newsprint and aluminum manufacture. Tapping into rich and diverse sources in Canada, the United States, and Europe, Massell provides an interdisciplinary, cross-border study of American capital and Canadian resources. He shows us how ever-larger amounts of capital yielded increasingly massive and sophisticated applications of hydroelectric technology. Grand industrial plans, in turn, encroached upon provincial water rights and farmers' lands, which drew the attention of the state. He examines the protracted power struggle between public and private interests - between American capitalists and the nascent bureaucracy of the province of Quebec - and describes the origins and evolution of the events that led to state control over hydraulic resources in the province. In doing so he provides vivid portraits of Duke and of Quebec politicians of the period and gives a dramatic account of the protracted battle of wits between Duke's chief engineer, William States Lee, and Quebec's chief of Hydraulic Service, Arthur Amos. Amassing Power speaks to the integration of North American economies, vividly illustrating the process by which American capital drew Canada's resource-rich North into the economic orbit of the United States.
Author : Gareth Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876644
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book People and Environment written by Gareth Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People and Physical Environment, A Global Approach provides an introduction to the main areas of environmental concern for geographers, environmental scientists and planners at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These include: Pollution of the atmosphere and its impact on our climate; The exploitation of the oceans; Management and supply of fresh water; Degradation of the land, and Biodiversity, and the need to maintain genetic diversity. The book argues that our knowledge and understanding of the environment is now so great that we can predict with considerable accuracy where the skills of science and technology need to be focussed in order to prevent severe environmental damage from occurring. Achieving successful management of the environment has become dependent upon active participation of a society prepared to pay for a high quality of life and the willingness of our elected politicians to legislate and enforce the very highest standards of environmental management. This book will be essential reading for students of geography, environmental studies/science and land use planners and will also contribute valuable information for climatology, biogeography, hydrology, land economy and forestry students.
Author : Omer Aloni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108952143
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment written by Omer Aloni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of how the law has dealt with environmental issues over the last century or so, the 1920s and 30s and the key role of the League of Nations in particular remain underexplored by scholars. By delving into the League's archives, Omer Aloni uncovers the story of how the interwar world expressed similar concerns to those of our own time in relation to nature, environmental challenges and human development, and reveals a missing link in understanding the roots of our ecological crisis. Charting the environmental regime of the League, he sheds new light on its role as a centre of surprising environmental dilemmas, initiatives, and solutions. Through a number of fascinating case studies, the hidden interests, perceptions, motivations, hopes, agendas and concerns of the League are revealed for the first time. Combining legal thought, historical archival research and environmental studies, a fascinating period in legal-environmental history is brought to life.
Author : Tennessee Valley Authority
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Bibliography for the TVA Program written by Tennessee Valley Authority and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald J. Pisani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520326474
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book From the Family Farm to Agribusiness written by Donald J. Pisani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Betty Glad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515658
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Key Pittman written by Betty Glad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Pittman
Author : Larry Anderson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801877911
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Benton Mackaye written by Larry Anderson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the visionary conservationist who created the Appalachian Trail is chronicled in this “first-rate biography of a unique American thinker” (Mark Harvey, Journal of American History). Born in 1879, Wilderness Society cofounder Benton MacKaye was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation and recreation. Spanning three-quarters of a century, his career had a major impact on emerging movements in conservation, environmentalism, and regional planning. MacKaye's seminal ideas on outdoor recreation, wilderness protection, land-use planning, community development, and transportation have inspired generations of activists, professionals, and adventurers seeking to strike a harmonious balance between human need and the natural environment. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history. Drawing on extensive research, Larry Anderson traces MacKaye's extensive career, examines his many published works, and describes the importance of MacKaye's relationships with such influential figures as Lewis Mumford, Aldo Leopold, and Walter Lippmann.
Author : Richard A. Colignon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791430118
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Power Plays written by Richard A. Colignon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Plays provides a conflict model of organizational behavior based on a historical reanalysis of the creation and early development of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from its origins as a World War I munitions plant to its consolidation as the largest electric utility in the United States. It also examines Philip Selznick's classic work, TVA and the Grass Roots. The book shows how the interactions among the Depression, New Deal politics, the promise of electricity, and diverse ideologies with the strategic and tactical maneuvers of a policy network explain the institutionalization of the TVA.
Author : Paul W. Hirt
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700618732
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Wired Northwest written by Paul W. Hirt and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region's first century of electrification, Paul Hirt's new study reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Hirt shows that every energy source comes with its share of costs and benefits. Because Northwest energy development meant river development, the electric power industry collided with the salmon fishing industry and the treaty rights of Northwest indigenous peoples from the 1890s to the present. Because U.S. federal agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built many of the large dams in the region, a significant portion of the power supply is publicly owned, initiating contentious debates over how that power should best serve the citizens of the region. Hirt dissects these ongoing battles, evaluating the successes and failures of regional efforts to craft an efficient yet socially just power system. Focusing on the dynamics of problem-solving, governance, and the tense relationship between profit-seeking and the public interest, Hirt's narrative takes in a wide range of players-not only on the consumer side, where electricity transformed mills, mines, households, commercial districts, urban transit, factories, and farms, but also power companies operating at the local and regional level, and investment companies that financed and in some cases parasitized the operators. His study also straddles the international border. It is the first book to compare energy development in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. Both engaging and balanced in its treatment of all the actors on this expansive stage, The Wired Northwest helps us better understand the challenges of the twenty-first century, as we try to learn from past mistakes and re-design an energy grid for a more sustainable future.
Author : Jim McConkey
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Anna and Darel written by Jim McConkey and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were these parents who had lived in a tent on an island in the Potomac River during the Depression, while the father wrangled WPA guidebooks toward publication, and later wrote speeches for the Senator investigating cartels during World War II, wrote the book on foot-and-mouth disease, and crossed swords with Joe McCarthy’s inquisition? Who was the mother who hadn’t worked in thirty years yet fended off financial disaster after her husband’s early death? Seventeen years later, those questions still lingered, with his mother’s death leaving a void that Jim McConkey fills with a compelling narrative. From ‘drinking wet and voting dry’ during Prohibition to starving as a freelance writer in the Depression, the WPA Writer’s Project, the early days of commercial air travel, and the international cartels that thwarted America’s war mobilization and led to civilian rationing, McConkey’s story captivates and informs. And finally, that gorgeous farm in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains is vividly preserved. The family’s history, stored in a four-drawer filing cabinet stuffed with family papers, is brought to life in this loving parental biography.
