Title:
The source : how rivers made America and America remade its rivers
Author:
Doyle, Martin, author.
ISBN:
9780393242355
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2018?]
©2018
Physical Description:
349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part one: Federalism. Navigating the republic -- Life on the Mississippi -- The rise of the levees -- Flood control -- Part two: Sovereignty and property. Water wars -- A new water market -- Part three: Taxation. Running water -- Burning rivers -- Part four: Regulation. Regulating power -- The power of a river -- Part five: Conservation. Channelization -- The restoration economy.
Abstract:
How rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginnings of the Republic to today.
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