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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783250603321

Autore

Echeverria John

Titolo

Rivers at risk : the concerned citizen's guide to hydropower / / John Echeverria [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Island Press, , [1989]

©1989

ISBN

0-933280-83-1

1-55963-894-X

1-61091-070-2

1-59726-871-2

1-4237-0780-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarrowPope <1942->

Roos-CollinsRichard <1953->

Disciplina

333.9140973

Soggetti

Hydroelectric power plants - Environmental aspects

West (U.S.) History

West (U.S.) Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Native peoples : the first forgotten founders -- European settlers : human faces, far-flung places -- Explorers and fur trappers -- The religion factor in western settlement -- The manifest destiny morass --  California gold fever -- Bootstrap capitalism in the Old West -- The Wild West and the wrenching of the American chronicle -- The Wild West and the settlers : contrasting visions.