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Rivers by Design
State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
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A sociological history of flood control politics that examines how local and regional pro-growth interests organized to press the federal government to protect land from flooding, and how this action altered the relationship between regions and the federa
Author / Editor information
Karen M. O’Neill is Assistant Professor of Human Ecology and an associate member of the Graduate Program in Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
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“Bold in its interpretation, sweeping in its scope, and judicious in its style, Rivers by Design argues convincingly that federal flood control policy, which culminated in the Flood Control Act of 1936, ended comprehensive resource planning at the federal level. This is an exciting and original study.”—Donald J. Pisani, author of Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935
“Karen M. O’Neill has produced a tour de force—a carefully researched and clearly written analysis of the tangled emergence of the U.S. flood-control system. Her powerful wake-up call to us all is how the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, reengineered the nation’s rivers to promote local economic development at the expense of—rather than with a sensitivity to—environmental values.”—Norris Hundley Jr., author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water–A History
“Masterfully weaving historical details, Karen M. O’Neill traces the unanticipated expansion of the federal government’s role in ‘controlling’ the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. In this era of rising hurricane-induced floodwaters, she offers deep insight into the tensions between local and national agencies, and between the state and private interests.”—Allan Schnaiberg, coauthor of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Tables and Maps
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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I Rivers and State Authority
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Chapter 1. Infrastructure Builds the State
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Chapter 2. The Founding Principles of River Development
13 - II Regional Competition and the Rise of the Flood Control Campaign
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Chapter 3. The Mississippi River: Becoming the Nation’s River
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Chapter 4. The Mississippi River: Resentment Leading to Civil War
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Chapter 5. The Mississippi River: Postwar Reunification, Postwar Aid
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Chapter 6. The Sacramento River: Miners versus Farmers
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Chapter 7. The Sacramento River: Capitalists Unify for Development
80 - III Redesigning Rivers in the National Interest
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Chapter 8. Federal Aid for the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers
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Chapter 9. The Fully Designed River
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Chapter 10. A Nationwide Program for Flood Control
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Chapter 11. Rivers by Design
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Appendix 1. Mississippi Valley River Improvement Conventions
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Appendix 2. Mississippi River Levee Association, Executive Committee
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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May 3, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9780822387862
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4 illustrations
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9780822387862
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