{"product_id":"hetch-hetchy-a-history-in-documents-from-the-broadview-sources-series-paperback","title":"Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChar Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA documentary history of the early 20th century damming of Yosemite's Hetch Hetch Valley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This decision concluded a decade-long, highly contentious debate over the dam-and-reservoir complex to supply water to post-earthquake San Francisco, a battle that was dramatic, unsettling, and consequential. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHetch Hetchy: A History in Documents\u003c\/em\u003e captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context. Key to understanding the debate is the prior and violent dispossession of Indigenous Nations from the valley they had stewarded for thousands of years. Their removal by the mid-nineteenth century enabled white elite tourism to take over, setting the stage for the subsequent debate for and against the dam in the early twentieth century. That debate contained a Faustian bargain: to secure an essential water supply for San Francisco meant the destruction of the valley that John Muir and others praised so highly. This contentious situation continues to reverberate, as interest groups now battle over whether to tear down the dam and restore the valley. Hetch Hetchy remains a dramatic flashpoint in American environmental culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChar Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His most recent books include \u003cem\u003eOgallala: Water for a Dry Land\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), \u003cem\u003eSan Antonio: A Tricentennial History\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), \u003cem\u003eWhere There's Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), and \u003cem\u003eThe Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167456596103,"sku":"9781554814404","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fc5d4248093e04bdcc71ac8f7d951038.webp?v=1733327779","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/hetch-hetchy-a-history-in-documents-from-the-broadview-sources-series-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}