Erika Marie Bsumek

The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477332238
• ISBN-10: 1477332235
• Artikelnr.: 72079629

Autorenporträt

Erika Marie Bsumek is an associate professor of history at UT Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1848–1940 and the coeditor of Nation States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface: Family Foundations
* Introduction: The Many Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam
* 1. Religious Expansion: Latter-day Settlers, Dispossession, and
Indentured Servitude, 1840-1880
* 2. Instruments of Dispossession: The Influence of Science and
Scholarship, 1869-1920
* 3. Structures of Erasure: Engineering, Education, and Ecology,
1910-1960
* 4. Political Maneuvering: Reclamation and Termination in Diné
Bikéyah, 1947-1980
* 5. Legal Paradigms and Dispossession: Navajos, Environmentalists, and
the Law, 1969-1980
* Epilogue: Dispossession and Possession: The Continued Fight over
Sacred Land and Water on the Colorado Plateau
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Illustration Credits
* Index