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Big Dams of the New Deal Era - A Confluence of Engineering and Politics (Paperback)
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Big Dams of the New Deal Era - A Confluence of Engineering and Politics (Paperback)
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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 western
river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how
engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived
public needs, and a river's natural features intertwined to create
distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors
describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and
the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of
these important public works. By illuminating the mathematical
analysis that supported large-scale dam construction, the authors
also describe how and why engineers in the 1930s most often opted
for massive gravity dams, whose design required enormous quantities
of concrete or earth-rock fill for stability. Richly illustrated,
Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how
major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape - both
politically and physically - and why American society in the 1930s
embraced them wholeheartedly.
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