Sociology 332 - Spring 2005
Worster, Rivers of Empire
As you read Rivers of Empire, look for and define the following key words:
accumulation
agrarianism
agribusiness
authority
Bureau of Reclamation
bureaucratic authoritarianism
capital
conservationism
despotism
domination
federalization
hydraulic society
hydraulic trap
industrial farming
instrumental reason
irrigation society
legitimacy crisis
legitimation
local control
managerial elite
managerial relationship with nature
Muir, John
National Reclamation Act of 1902
overproduction
Powell, John Wesley
power elite
Progressivism
salinization
social engineering
state, the
state regimes, centralized
stratification
technical elite
techno-economic order
technological democracy
technological domination
Thoreau, Henry David
Turner, Fredrick Jackson
water, simplified, abstracted
Wittfogel, Karl
last updated March 24, 2005