Umfang:
Online-Ressource (290 p)
ISBN:
9780826355874
Inhalt:
This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Ecology and Geology along the Mighty Brazos River; 2: Culture, Continuity, and a Brazos River Reimagined; 3: Immigrants, Improvements, and Agricultural Ideals along the Lower Brazos River; 4: Locks, Dams, and a Hope for Navigation along the Middle Brazos River; 5: Big Dams and Big Dreams along the Upper Brazos River; 6: Importation and Diversion along a Still-Untamed Brazos; 7: A Defiant Brazos and the Persistence of Its People; Appendix A: Overview of Improvement Projects
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Appendix B: Geological TimelineNotes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780826355881
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780826355874
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Unruly Waters : A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
