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A Story That Stands Like A Dam

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

A Story That Stands Like A Dam

By Russell Martin

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About the book

In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought into being the environmental movement we know today.Across the West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed during the Bureau of Reclamation's grand century of dam-building are being heard. More than thirty years after its construction, Glen Canyon Dam is still at the vortex of cont...Show more

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ISBN

9781607815679

Publisher

University of Utah Press,U.S.

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

A Story That Stands Like A Dam

Format

Paperback

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