Donald Jackson

Pastoral and Monumental

Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape

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Produktbeschreibung

Chronicles America's longtime fascination with dams as represented on picture postcards from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Through over four hundred images, Jackson documents the remarkable transformation of dams and their significance to the environment and culture of America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Longleaf Services B/O Univ of Pittsburgh
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 187mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780822944263
• ISBN-10: 082294426X
• Artikelnr.: 37271976

Autorenporträt

Donald C. Jackson is professor of history at Lafayette College. He is the author of Great American Bridges and Dams and Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West, and coauthor of Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics.