Mixing the Waters: Envrionment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee -Tombigee Waterway

by Jeffrey K. Stine

Book Overview

The largest, most costly domestic public works project ever undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Tenn-Tom's 234 miles, five dams, and ten locks entailed the movement of more earth than was required to dig the Panama Canal. In a monumental history of the nation's largest navigation project, Jeffrey K. Stine records the struggle between the interests determined to build the waterway and the forces pitted against its completion. Based on extensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962262854
• ISBN13: 9780962262852
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University of Akron Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"