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Author : Kenneth T. Howell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Empire Over the Dam written by Kenneth T. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195078060
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Rivers of Empire written by Donald Worster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Author : Christopher Sneddon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628445X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Concrete Revolution written by Christopher Sneddon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department’s push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union’s increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world’s underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country’s global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies—from the Bureau’s early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia—Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.
Author : John Hankins Wallace
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ... written by John Hankins Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janne Lahti
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806159340
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Wars for Empire written by Janne Lahti and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples—in essence conducting an extended military campaign that culminated with the capture of Geronimo and the forced removal of the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. In this book, Janne Lahti charts these encounters and the cultural differences that shaped them. Wars for Empire offers a new perspective on the conduct, duration, intensity, and ultimate outcome of one of America's longest wars. Centuries of conflict with Spain and Mexico had honed Apache war-making abilities and encouraged a culture based in part on warrior values, from physical prowess and specialized skills to a shared belief in individual effort. In contrast, U.S. military forces lacked sufficient training and had little public support. The splintered, protracted, and ferocious warfare exposed the limitations of the U.S. military and of federal Indian policies, challenging narratives of American supremacy in the West. Lahti maps the ways in which these weaknesses undermined the U.S. advance. He also stresses how various Apache groups reacted differently to the U.S. invasion. Ultimately, new technologies, the expansion of Euro-American settlements, and decades of war and deception ended armed Apache resistance. By comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history of settler colonialism with worldwide significance.
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford (3d bart.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (984 download)
Download or read book The Horses of the British Empire written by Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford (3d bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hankins Wallace
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Wallace's American Trotting Register ... written by John Hankins Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Canadian National Record for Swine written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Guernsey Cattle Club
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Herd Register written by American Guernsey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Duroc-Jersey Swine Record Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Lagendijk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350367893
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Dam Internationalism written by Vincent Lagendijk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour. Built around the world, they generated networks of actors, institutions and companies embedded in globally circulating technological knowledge and discourses of modernization and development. This volume takes a global approach to the history of dams, exploring the complex power relations and internationalist entanglements that shaped them. Shedding new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles that defined the 20th century, Dam Internationalism shows that dams are artefacts in their own right and have created new and revisionist histories that urge us to rethink classic narratives. From international cooperation, to the importance of the Cold War and the capitalist/socialist divide, the success of western technology, the prominence of the United States, the alleged impotence of people affected by dams, and the uniformity of infrastructure. Each chapter showcases a different case study from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America to show that dams enabled marginalized countries and actors to articulate themselves and pursue their own political and socio-economic goals in a century dominated by the Global North.
Author : Fuat Şentürk
Publisher : Water Resources Publication
ISBN 13 : 9780918334800
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Hydraulics of Dams and Reservoirs written by Fuat Şentürk and published by Water Resources Publication. This book was released on 1994 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book National program of inspection of dams written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation) written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 6. Considers legislation to authorize relocation and compensation of Seneca Indians due to construction of Kinzua Dam on Allegheny Indian Reservation. May 18 hearing was held in Salamanca, N.Y.
Author : Richard Morris
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474623441
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Dam Buster written by Richard Morris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLAND Barnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to reusable spacecraft near the end. In the years between he pioneered new kinds of aircraft structure, bombs to alter the way in which wars are fought, and aeroplanes that could change shape in flight. Later work extended to radio telescopy, prosthetic limbs, and plans for a fleet of high-speed cargo submarines to travel the world's oceans in silence. For all his fame, little is known about the man himself. Dam Buster draws on family records to reveal someone thick with contradictions: a Victorian who in his imagination ranged far into the 21st century; a romantic for whom nostalgic pastoral and advanced technology went together; an unassuming man who kept a close eye on his legacy. Wallis was last in a line of engineers who combined hands-on experience with searching vision. Richard Morris sets out to locate him in Britain's grand narrative.
Author : New York State Agricultural Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ... written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
