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NEW DEAL VS. YANKEE INDEPENDENCE: The Failure of Comprehensive Development on the Connecticut River, and its Long-Term Consequences

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: For a person familiar with federal dams on major rivers in the American West or South, a visit to an Army Corps of Engineers dam in New England’s largest river basin, the Connecticut, can be a startling experience (Figure 1). e dam seems like a giant ridge separating two deep empty spaces on either side. Instead of an extended reservoir so common at dams on rivers like

Source: ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Authors: Eve Vogel, Alexandra Lacey, Eve Vogel, Alexandra Lacy

Language: English

Topic: American Environmental and Regional History

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7011899212

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