Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control

Author/Contributor(s):	O'Neill, Karen M
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	05/03/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A sociological history of flood control politics that examines how local and regional pro-growth interests organized to press the federal government to protect land from flooding, and how this action altered the relationship between regions and the federa