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Former library copy, with adhesive labels and tape on spine.
Bookplate stamp on inside front cover and obsolete barcode.
Library card holder, inside back cover.
Softcover book. About the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley, with some focus on Lawrence. Speaks to environmental history, legal history, social history, technological history, business history, and political ecology, using an interdisciplinary approach.
From the back cover, review by Choice: “A clear, detailed, and sometimes moving account of the industrialization of the Merrimack River Valley. . . . It is a tale of environmental degradation and engineering triumph. It is also the story of how water came to be defined as private property. The author does and excellent job of showing the interconnections among dam builders, mill owners, farmers, and public health officials, who each saw the river system differently but who shared the belief that unused water was wasted water. […]”
Speaks to Lawrence history in regards to: fishways, pollution, sewers and sewage disposal, steam power, waterpower, water supply, the Lawrence Dam, the Lawrence Experimental Station (Lawrence Experiment Station), the Essex Company, and Charles S. Storrow.
Speaks to the Merrimack River Valley history in regards to: agriculture, conflict over water, deforestation, demographic pressures, founding of textile cities, Indians (Native Americans), river navigation, physical features of the river, precipitation, resource imbalance, and water quality.
Contents
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Origins
1. The Transformation of Water
2. Control of Water
3. Company Waters
Part II: Maturation
4. The Struggle over Water
5. The Law of Water
6. Depleted Waters
7. Fouled Water
Part III: Decline
8. The Productive Value of Water
Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Index
Copyright, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
First paperback edition, 1994.