Author: Interior Department
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160913648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "
Bureau of Reclamation
Author: Interior Department
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160913648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160913648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "
Dams and Public Safety
Author: Robert B. Jansen
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Crops and water
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Crops and water
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Concrete Revolution
Author: Christopher Sneddon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
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.
Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior: Statistical Appendix
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and growth to 1945
Author: William D. Rowley
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.
Department of the Interior (except Bonneville Power Administration, Bureau of Reclamation, Southeastern Power Administration, and Southwestern Power Administration)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Water Measurement Manual
Author:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Directory of Resources for Cultural and Educational Exchanges and International Communication
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Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Information Sources and Services Directory
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Office of Library andInformation Services
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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