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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Needham, Andrew (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Power lines [Texte imprimé] : Phoenix and the making of the modern Southwest / Andrew Needham
Publication : Princeton (N.J.) ; Oxford (GB) : Princeton University Press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Lien à la collection : Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo
Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix
had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo
Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning
power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix,
Los Angeles, and other cities. Exploring the postwar developments of these two very
different landscapes, Power lines tells the story of the far-reaching environmental
and social inequalities of metropolitan growth, and the roots of the contemporary
coal-fueled climate change crisis ; Andrew Needham explains how inexpensive electricity
became a requirement for modern life in Phoenix--driving assembly lines and cooling
the oppressive heat. Navajo officials initially hoped energy development would improve
their lands too, but as ash piles marked their landscape, air pollution filled the
skies, and almost half of Navajo households remained without electricity, many Navajos
came to view power lines as a sign of their subordination in the Southwest. Drawing
together urban, environmental, and American Indian history, Needham demonstrates how
power lines created unequal connections between distant landscapes and how environmental
changes associated with suburbanization reached far beyond the metropolitan frontier.
Needham also offers a new account of postwar inequality, arguing that residents of
the metropolitan periphery suffered similar patterns of marginalization as those faced
in America?s inner cities
Sujet(s) : Électricité -- Distribution -- Phoenix (Ariz., États-Unis) -- Histoire
Électricité -- Distribution -- Société -- Phoenix (Ariz., États-Unis) -- Histoire
Électricité -- Distribution -- États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) -- Histoire
Électricité -- Distribution -- Société -- États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) -- Histoire
Conditions sociales -- Phoenix (Ariz., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Conditions sociales -- États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
333.793 20979 (23e éd.) = Énergie électrique - États-Unis - Grand Bassin et versant du Pacifique ; 979 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Grand Bassin et versant du Pacifique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691139067. - ISBN 0691139067. - ISBN 9780691173542. - ISBN 0691173540
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45741076p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45741076
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Fragments: A region of fragments ; Demand: The valley of the sun ; Turquoise and
turboprops ; Supply: Modernizing the Navajo ; Integrating geographies ; Protest:
The living river ; A piece of the action ; Conclusion: "Good bye, big sky."
