Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering And Politics
David P. Billington
University of Oklahoma Press, 2006
Edition: 1
ISBN-13: 9780806137957; ISBN-10: 0806137959
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The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams' baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. <P> <i>Big Dams of the New Deal Era</i> tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river's natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of these important public works. <P> Richly illustrated, <i>Big Dams of the New Deal Era</i> offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape--both politically and physically--and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.