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Hardcover Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics Book

ISBN: 0806137959

ISBN13: 9780806137957

Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

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The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams' baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate.

Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four...

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