Name: The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley (en Inglés)
SKU: 64545893
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Author: Rutenberg Micah,Sachs Avigail
ISBN: 9781961856646

portada The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley (en Inglés)

The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley (en Inglés)

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Applied Research & Design

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Rutenberg Micah,Sachs Avigail

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Inglés

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Tapa Blanda

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9781961856646

The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley (en Inglés)

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In 1933 the United States government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and gave it jurisdiction over a demarcated region - the watershed of the Tennessee. The TVA was authorized to develop the resources in the Valley and promote the welfare of its residents. The TVA pursued these goals by constructing three large-scale operations, referred as the river, land and power machines. The TVA also invested in social projects, including support for housing and tourist industries in the region. The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley examines this comprehensive effort as a form of statecraft - the art of government persuasion and diplomacy - manifested through environmental transformation. It follows the TVA's physical transformations and its investment in infrastructural power - programs that extended the state's capacity to reach even the most remote residents. The product of this process, the mechanized landscape, is a testament to the TVA's complex approach to democracy, its racial and middle-class biases, and its technical and managerial acumen. By bringing together original photography, newly created maps, and text, this book offers a well-researched, visually compelling appraisal of the TVA's plans and their implementation. Rather than following a linear textual narrative, readers are invited to explore the complexity of the mechanized landscape through multiple media.