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STUDIES IN AMERICAN POPULAR HISTORY AND CULTURE

Edited by

Jerome Nadelhaft

University of Maine

A ROUTLEDGE SERIES

STUDIES IN AMERICAN POPULAR HISTORY AND CULTURE

JEROME NADELHAFT, General Editor

WRITING JAZZ
Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s
Nicholas M.Evans

AUTOMOBILITY
Social Changes in the American South, 19091939
Corey T.Lesseig

ACTORS AND ACTIVISTS
Politics, Performance, and Exchange Among Social Worlds
David A.Schlossman

STUDIES IN THE LAND
The Northeast Corner
David C.Smith

FIRST DO NO HARM
Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles
Mary E.Knatterud

PIETY AND POWER
Gender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 16301700
Leslie Lindenauer

RACE-ING MASCULINITY
Identity in Contemporary U.S. Mens Writing
John Christopher Cunningham

CRIME AND THE NATION
Prison Reform and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 17861800
Peter Okun

FOOD IN FILM
A Culinary Performance of Communication
Jane Ferry

DECONSTRUCTING POST-WWII NEW YORK CITY
The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
Robert Bennett

RETHINKING THE RED SCARE
The Lusk Committee and New Yorks Crusade against Radicalism, 19191923
Todd J.Pfannestiel

HOLLYWOOD AND THE RISE OF PHYSICAL CULTURE
Heather Addison

HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Romanticism, Realism, and Testimony
John Allen

NO WAY OF KNOWING
Crime, Urban Legends, and the Internet
Pamela Donovan

THE MAKING OF THE PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS
A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Antimission Movement, 18001840
James R.Mathis

WOMEN AND COMEDY IN SOLO PERFORMANCE
Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin, and Roseanne
Suzanne Lavin

THE LITERATURE OF IMMIGRATION AND RACIAL FORMATION
Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
Linda Joyce Brown

POPULAR CULTURE AND THE ENDURING MYTH OF CHICAGO, 18711968
Lisa Krissoff Boehm

AMERICAS FIGHT OVER WATER

The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems

Kevin Wehr

ROUTLEDGE
New York & London

Published in 2004 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016

Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wehr, Kevin, 1972 Americas fight over water: the environmental and political consequences of large-scale water systems/Kevin Wehr. p. cm.(American popular history & culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-94930-0 (hardback: alk. paper) 1. Water resources developmentPolitical aspectsWest (U.S.)Case studies. 2. Water resources developmentSocial aspectsWest (U.S.)Case studies. 3. Water resources developmentEnvironmental aspectsWest (U.S.)Case studies. 4. Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) 5. Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) 6. Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) I. Title. II. Series: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm)). HD1695.W4W38 2004 333.91620979dc22 2004005112

ISBN 0-203-30789-5 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-415-94930-0 (Print Edition)

Why should you not spend money todefend your government, your society, against your expensive paupers and criminals? We must show the poor man how he can afford to get marriedand become a homeowner.

General Frederick Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, 1895

The superiority of the western half-continent over its eastern counterpart may not be expressed in a word. It is, rather, a matter for patient unfolding through a study of natural conditions over wide areas, and a scrutiny of the human institutions which are the inevitable product of this environment. Aridity, in the elementary sense, is purely an affair of climate. That it is also the germ of new industrial and social systems, with farreaching possibilities in the fields of ethics and politics, will be demonstrated.

William Ellsworth Smythe, 1899

The farm boys in the East want farms of their own. [The Newlands Act] gives them a place where they can go and build homes without being driven into the already crowded cities to seek unemployment.

Representative Oscar Underwood of Alabama, 1901

In the shadow of Hoover Dam one feels that the future is limitless, that no obstacle is insurmountable, that we have in our grasp the power to achieve anything if we can but summon the will.

Joseph Stevens, 1988

It required 19 centuries to define decent man-to-man conduct and the process is only half done; it may take as long to evolve a code of man-to-land conduct.

Aldo Leopold, 1949

What we know now that we didnt know in 1938 is that a river isnt a water pipe.

Bruce Barcott, 1999

Preface

Americas fight over water has long historical roots: from indigenous communities clustered near year-round flows to the twentieth century Anglo domination of the wild rivers of the West, water has been central to the social, political, and cultural life of the western portions of North America. Comparative historical sociology can help make sense of socio-cultural shifts over time, and this work addresses how the control of nature has shifted from sustainable use to domination, and how the unintended consequences of this history pose serious problems for sustainability in the future.

The central organizing principle of the book is an examination of the discourses about the proposal and construction of large-scale water systems in the American West. The fights over water stretched from the shifting northern borders with Canada to the contested southern borders with Mexico, and from the emptying of the rivers into the Pacific Ocean to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.Multiple social groups argued for and against construction of the dams, hydropower plants, and irrigation canals, and the rhetoric these groups used betrays a complexity of continuity with past views of natures gifts to society and changing views of how humans should preserve natural resources. The three case studies presentedBoulder (Hoover) Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, and Glen Canyon Damexhibit these complexities, as well as the power and politics of the social groups competing for dominance.

The examination of these three high dams in the American West shows how the discussions around the dams illuminate a particular set of society-nature relationships. Society and nature interact withand mutually constructone another in complex ways, but an approach that utilizes the perspectives of political and environmental sociology can yield important insights regarding the ways that culture, politics, and nature are linked. Nature and society exist in a dialectical relationship, where the growth of society is influenced by natural barriers, and nature is concomitantly effected by social forces. Building dams in an arid land is one way to overcome natural barriers to social development, but stopping the natural flow of a river is not just costly, it has clear environmental consequences. Such costs and consequences need to be justified. This book addresses the specific question: what methods were used to justify and/or contest the building of an economic and political infrastructure in response to the perceived water scarcity of the American West?

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