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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469623306
  • 1469623307
  • 1469620057
  • 9781469620053
  • 1469620065
  • 9781469620060
  • 1469636026
  • 9781469636023
Other title: 潓瑵敨湲圠瑡牥潓瑵敨湲倠睯牥 Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Southern water, Southern power.DDC classification:
  • 333.91/40975 23
LOC classification:
  • HD1694.A5 M235 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.

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-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water.

English.

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