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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen M. O'NeillPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Edition: annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780822337737ISBN 10: 0822337738 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 03 May 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsTables 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 265ReviewsBold in its interpretation, sweeping in its scope, and judicious in its style, Rivers by Design argues convincingly that federal flood control policy, which culminated in the Flood Control Act of 1936, ended comprehensive resource planning at the federal level. This is an exciting and original study. -Donald J. Pisani, author of Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Karen M. O'Neill has produced a tour de force-a carefully researched and clearly written analysis of the tangled emergence of the U.S. flood-control system. Her powerful wake-up call to us all is how the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, reengineered the nation's rivers to promote local economic development at the expense of-rather than with a sensitivity to-environmental values. -Norris Hundley Jr., author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History Masterfully weaving historical details, Karen M. O'Neill traces the unanticipated expansion of the federal government's role in 'controlling' the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. In this era of rising hurricane-induced floodwaters, she offers deep insight into the tensions between local and national agencies, and between the state and private interests. -Allan Schnaiberg, coauthor of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development ""Karen M. O'Neill has produced a tour de force--a carefully researched and clearly written analysis of the tangled emergence of the U.S. flood control system. Her powerful wake-up call to us all is how the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, reengineered the nation's rivers to promote local economic development at the expense of--rather than with a sensitivity to--environmental values.""--Norris Hundley Jr., author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History ""Bold in its interpretation, sweeping in its scope, and judicious in its style, Rivers by Design argues convincingly that federal flood control policy, which culminated in the Flood Control Act of 1936, ended comprehensive resource planning at the federal level. This is an exciting and original study.""--Donald J. Pisani, author of Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 ""Masterfully weaving historical details, Karen M. O'Neill traces the unanticipated expansion of the federal government's role in 'controlling' the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. In this era of rising hurricane-induced floodwaters, she offers deep insight into the tensions between local and national agencies, and between the state and private interests.""--Allan Schnaiberg, coauthor of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development Karen M. O'Neill has produced a tour de force--a carefully researched and clearly written analysis of the tangled emergence of the U.S. flood control system. Her powerful wake-up call to us all is how the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, reengineered the nation's rivers to promote local economic development at the expense of--rather than with a sensitivity to--environmental values. --Norris Hundley Jr., author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History Bold in its interpretation, sweeping in its scope, and judicious in its style, Rivers by Design argues convincingly that federal flood control policy, which culminated in the Flood Control Act of 1936, ended comprehensive resource planning at the federal level. This is an exciting and original study. --Donald J. Pisani, author of Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Masterfully weaving historical details, Karen M. O'Neill traces the unanticipated expansion of the federal government's role in 'controlling' the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. In this era of rising hurricane-induced floodwaters, she offers deep insight into the tensions between local and national agencies, and between the state and private interests. --Allan Schnaiberg, coauthor of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development Author InformationKaren M. O’Neill is Assistant Professor of Human Ecology and an associate member of the Graduate Program in Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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