Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

by Andrew Needham

Book Overview

How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American Southwest

In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691173540
• ISBN13: 9780691173542
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"