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• ISBN: 0472097563 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780472097562 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0472067567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780472067565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: viii, 206 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Revision of the author's thesis, Indiana University.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The birth of the hydraulic conflict -- River wars : Los Angeles, the Owens Valley, and Mary Austin's The ford -- Turning wine into water : water's crucial absence in The grapes of wrath -- Waging water : hydrology versus mythology in The monkey wrench gang -- The environmental system : animal dreams and the rhetoric of environment -- Imaging sustainability.

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Subject:

American literature > Southwest, New > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southwest, New.
Water-supply > Political aspects > Southwest, New.
Politics and literature > Southwest, New.
Southwest, New > Politics and government.
Southwestern States > Intellectual life.
Southwest, New > Intellectual life.
Southwest, New > In literature.
Water-supply > Southwest, New.
Water > Southwest, New.
Deserts in literature.
Water in literature.
Literatur
Politik
Wasserwirtschaft
USA > Südweststaaten

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