Andrew Needham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Needham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Needham |
| SIGNATURE | NEEDHAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University , US |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Water Knife
Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism by Robert Lifset
Reviewed by: Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism by Robert Lifset Andrew Needham (bio) Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism. By Robert Lifset. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. 328. $25.95. On 26 September 1962, Consolidated Edison of New York approached the city of Cornwall, New York with a proposal to build a …
As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900–1970
The scholarship on the politics of the Colorado River forms an edifice that collectively rivals the river's hydroelectric dams in size and scale. Steven C. Schulte's new book is still able to tell a surprisingly original story of water politics on Colorado's western slope during the twentieth century. Schulte demonstrates that water politics, often portrayed through interstate battles, also created enduring political divisions within Colorado. Th…
Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Journal Article Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland Get access By David Stradling and Richard Stradling. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xviii, 245 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 270–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw148 Published: 01 June 2016
A Piece of the Action
This chapter focuses on how Navajo nationalism attempted to alter the spatial dynamics that subordinated Navajo claims to control their land to metropolitan demands for inexpensive power. Metropolitan demand produced the notion that Navajos possessed massive mineral wealth, and this allowed young activists to imagine the Nation as space colonized by the greedy cities of the Southwest. It allowed Navajo leader Peter MacDonald to imagine the format…
Turquoise and Turboprops
This chapter examines how manufacturing passed agriculture as the Phoenix's largest economic sector. By 1960, manufacturing employed thirty thousand people and generated income of $435 million in Phoenix, compared to fewer than one thousand employees and income of $5 million twenty years earlier. It also remade the landscape. In Phoenix's industrial boom, the “clean” factories of companies located operations outside of Phoenix's traditional indus…
The Living River
This chapter addresses how The New York Times challenged the long-held claims of Arizona officials that their state was entitled to a portion of the Colorado River by rights, a claim recently upheld by the Supreme Court. The paper also argued that Arizona's attempt to realize those claims endangered the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon itself. Transforming the flowing energy of water into flowing electricity, the Times suggested, was not in th…
Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier
This introductory chapter provides an overview of postwar metropolitan development. The search for the natural resources required for metropolitan growth, and for spaces to discard the waste produced by metropolitan consumption, led federal, state, and local actors to create new infrastructures. These power lines, aqueducts, and landfills reorganized economies, ecologies, and societies in distant landscapes. Once constructed, they shaped possibil…
The Valley of the Sun
This chapter focuses on the Valley of the Sun. “The Valley of the Sun” was not only an idealized place. It was also a political project, the result of two of the most powerful forces in the postwar American political economy. The first was the ongoing legacy of New Deal policies that sought to fuel the national economy through debt-driven personal consumption. Part of the general postwar economic philosophy historians have labeled “growth liberal…
A Region of Fragments
This chapter looks at the construction of Boulder Dam. Franklin Roosevelt explained the dam as a manifestation of the transformations the New Deal had set in motion. “The largest generators and turbines yet installed in this country, machinery that can continuously supply nearly two million horsepower of electric energy,” Roosevelt explained, would soon “power factory motors, street and household lights and irrigation pumps.” In so doing, the dam…
Integrating Geographies
This chapter discusses how changes in geography remade space in the Southwest, rendering the Colorado Plateau in many ways the center of the region's economic development. With the construction of Mojave Generating Station, and the expansion of Four Corners Power Plant from 230 megawatts to over 1,000 megawatts in the late 1960s, the landscape of the Colorado Plateau—and specifically the landscape of the Navajo and Hopi Nations—became the broad o…
“Good Bye, Big Sky”: Coal and Postwar America
This concluding chapter presents a reading of “Good Bye, Big Sky” and “The Giant Revived,” two articles on coal's rise as the fuel of postwar America and the cost of that transition. “The Giant Revived” explained how American electrical utilities found coal to be an inexpensive alternative to natural gas and nuclear power that could meet the nation's burgeoning demand for electricity. This demand drove a revival of the coal industry. By 1970, dem…
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Modernizing the Navajo
This chapter explores how a new infrastructure of coal mines and power plants on the Navajo Reservation, and of power lines that stretched across the Southwest, changed the landscape of the Navajo Reservation. The political terms in which this infrastructure took place—terms set largely by the belief held by businessmen from Phoenix and elsewhere that the state should facilitate capital location—shaped this infrastructure's meaning and future. Th…
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern 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 coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and oth…
Geochemical indicators of preservation status and site deterioration at Star Carr
Durable Residues: Addressing the use of microwear, a case study from March Hill
Different cultural and research traditions have led to distinctively different approaches to lithics analysis. An integration of different approaches can often give new 'ways of seeing' artefact assemblages and distribution patterns and provide valuable insights into past activities. Here we present the preliminary results of a project integrating detailed analytical techniques, focused on processes of production and consumption and social dynami…
Beyond the Metropolis: Metropolitan Growth and Regional Transformation in Postwar America
The new suburban scholarship has succeeded in incorporating suburbs into urban historiography, but it has also implicitly reinforced an artificial boundary that obscures far-reaching effects of metropolitan growth. With their singular emphasis on decentralization, such analyses that stop at the political boundaries of the last “exurb” provide incomplete narratives of postwar community development.This article explores recent historiographical tre…
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern 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 coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and oth…
Geochemical indicators of preservation status and site deterioration at Star Carr
Durable Residues: Addressing the use of microwear, a case study from March Hill
Different cultural and research traditions have led to distinctively different approaches to lithics analysis. An integration of different approaches can often give new 'ways of seeing' artefact assemblages and distribution patterns and provide valuable insights into past activities. Here we present the preliminary results of a project integrating detailed analytical techniques, focused on processes of production and consumption and social dynami…
Durable Residues: Addressing the use of microwear, a case study from March Hill
Different cultural and research traditions have led to distinctively different approaches to lithics analysis. An integration of different approaches can often give new 'ways of seeing' artefact assemblages and distribution patterns and provide valuable insights into past activities. Here we present the preliminary results of a project integrating detailed analytical techniques, focused on processes of production and consumption and social dynami…
Beyond the Metropolis: Metropolitan Growth and Regional Transformation in Postwar America
The new suburban scholarship has succeeded in incorporating suburbs into urban historiography, but it has also implicitly reinforced an artificial boundary that obscures far-reaching effects of metropolitan growth. With their singular emphasis on decentralization, such analyses that stop at the political boundaries of the last “exurb” provide incomplete narratives of postwar community development.This article explores recent historiographical tre…
Geochemical indicators of preservation status and site deterioration at Star Carr
A Piece of the Action
This chapter focuses on how Navajo nationalism attempted to alter the spatial dynamics that subordinated Navajo claims to control their land to metropolitan demands for inexpensive power. Metropolitan demand produced the notion that Navajos possessed massive mineral wealth, and this allowed young activists to imagine the Nation as space colonized by the greedy cities of the Southwest. It allowed Navajo leader Peter MacDonald to imagine the format…
Turquoise and Turboprops
This chapter examines how manufacturing passed agriculture as the Phoenix's largest economic sector. By 1960, manufacturing employed thirty thousand people and generated income of $435 million in Phoenix, compared to fewer than one thousand employees and income of $5 million twenty years earlier. It also remade the landscape. In Phoenix's industrial boom, the “clean” factories of companies located operations outside of Phoenix's traditional indus…
The Living River
This chapter addresses how The New York Times challenged the long-held claims of Arizona officials that their state was entitled to a portion of the Colorado River by rights, a claim recently upheld by the Supreme Court. The paper also argued that Arizona's attempt to realize those claims endangered the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon itself. Transforming the flowing energy of water into flowing electricity, the Times suggested, was not in th…
Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier
This introductory chapter provides an overview of postwar metropolitan development. The search for the natural resources required for metropolitan growth, and for spaces to discard the waste produced by metropolitan consumption, led federal, state, and local actors to create new infrastructures. These power lines, aqueducts, and landfills reorganized economies, ecologies, and societies in distant landscapes. Once constructed, they shaped possibil…
The Valley of the Sun
This chapter focuses on the Valley of the Sun. “The Valley of the Sun” was not only an idealized place. It was also a political project, the result of two of the most powerful forces in the postwar American political economy. The first was the ongoing legacy of New Deal policies that sought to fuel the national economy through debt-driven personal consumption. Part of the general postwar economic philosophy historians have labeled “growth liberal…
A Region of Fragments
This chapter looks at the construction of Boulder Dam. Franklin Roosevelt explained the dam as a manifestation of the transformations the New Deal had set in motion. “The largest generators and turbines yet installed in this country, machinery that can continuously supply nearly two million horsepower of electric energy,” Roosevelt explained, would soon “power factory motors, street and household lights and irrigation pumps.” In so doing, the dam…
Integrating Geographies
This chapter discusses how changes in geography remade space in the Southwest, rendering the Colorado Plateau in many ways the center of the region's economic development. With the construction of Mojave Generating Station, and the expansion of Four Corners Power Plant from 230 megawatts to over 1,000 megawatts in the late 1960s, the landscape of the Colorado Plateau—and specifically the landscape of the Navajo and Hopi Nations—became the broad o…
“Good Bye, Big Sky”: Coal and Postwar America
This concluding chapter presents a reading of “Good Bye, Big Sky” and “The Giant Revived,” two articles on coal's rise as the fuel of postwar America and the cost of that transition. “The Giant Revived” explained how American electrical utilities found coal to be an inexpensive alternative to natural gas and nuclear power that could meet the nation's burgeoning demand for electricity. This demand drove a revival of the coal industry. By 1970, dem…
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Modernizing the Navajo
This chapter explores how a new infrastructure of coal mines and power plants on the Navajo Reservation, and of power lines that stretched across the Southwest, changed the landscape of the Navajo Reservation. The political terms in which this infrastructure took place—terms set largely by the belief held by businessmen from Phoenix and elsewhere that the state should facilitate capital location—shaped this infrastructure's meaning and future. Th…
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern 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 coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and oth…
Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Journal Article Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland Get access By David Stradling and Richard Stradling. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xviii, 245 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 270–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw148 Published: 01 June 2016
As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900–1970
The scholarship on the politics of the Colorado River forms an edifice that collectively rivals the river's hydroelectric dams in size and scale. Steven C. Schulte's new book is still able to tell a surprisingly original story of water politics on Colorado's western slope during the twentieth century. Schulte demonstrates that water politics, often portrayed through interstate battles, also created enduring political divisions within Colorado. Th…
Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism by Robert Lifset
Reviewed by: Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism by Robert Lifset Andrew Needham (bio) Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism. By Robert Lifset. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. 328. $25.95. On 26 September 1962, Consolidated Edison of New York approached the city of Cornwall, New York with a proposal to build a …
The Water Knife
Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economy (7 works) · Metropolitan area (7 works) · History (6 works)