Lowell of the South -- Dam crazy for white coal in the new South -- New Deal big dam consensus -- A Keystone dam and Georgia's new ocean -- Big dam backlash rising in the Sun Belt -- Countryside conservatism and conservation -- Taken and delivered : the Chattooga River
Summary
Why has the American South become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did the region become derailed by drought and regional squabbling? To answer these questions, Christopher J. Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water
