Description: While electricity held considerable promise for residents of the American West throughout the 1920s, it did not come with the flip of a switch. That dream could not be realized until it was first determined who would manage the resources from which power was generated.Westerners were at the forefront of the debate over electric power development even before the construction of large, federally owned dams in the 1930s. At the heart of this debate was a conflict between public power advocates and the private utility industry over control of the environment, a struggle that was played out in the political arena. In this book, Jay Brigham describes that rivalry in the West in the years before the New Deal.
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Type: Resource
Publication Name: University Press of Kansas
Signed: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Empowering the West : Electrical Politics before Fdr
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Topic: Public Policy / General, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / 20th Century, American Government / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 1998
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jay Brigham
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
