Heavy ground William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster

Mulholland : a man and an aqueductThe dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of safety : inquest and investigations -- After the flood : dam building -- After the flood : Mulholland -- Was...

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1. Verfasser: Hundley, Norris (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Jackson, Donald C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, California Published for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press, Berkeley, California, Press Berkeley and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California 2015
Schriftenreihe:Western histories 8
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Zusammenfassung:Mulholland : a man and an aqueductThe dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of safety : inquest and investigations -- After the flood : dam building -- After the flood : Mulholland -- Was failure inevitable?
Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of safety : inquest and investigations -- After the flood : dam building -- After the flood : Mulholland -- Was failure inevitable?
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:439 pages
24 cm
ISBN:9780520287662
978-0-520-28766-2