O'Neill Rivers by Design

State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8786-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, Karen M.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Maps ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xxi

I. Rivers and State Authority 1

1. Infrastructure Builds the State 3

2. The Founding Principles of River Development 13

II. Regional Competition and the Rise of the Flood Control Campaign 27

3. The Mississippi River: Becoming the Nation’s River 31

4. The Mississippi River: Resentment Leading to Civil War 43

5. The Mississippi River: Postwar Reunification, Postwar Aid 56

6. The Sacramento River: Miners versus Farmers 68

7. The Sacramento River: Capitalists Unify for Development 80

III. Redesigning Rivers in the National Interest 97

8. Federal Aid for the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers 99

9. The Fully Designed River 128

10. A Nationwide Program for Flood Control 150

11. Rivers by Design 179

Appendix 1. Mississippi Valley River Improvement Conventions 187

Appendix 2. Mississippi River Levee Association, Executive Committee 197

Notes 199

Bibliography 243

Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

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.