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Water and American government : the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / Donald J. Pisani.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pisani, Donald J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
- United States.
- Reclamation of land--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Reclamation of land.
- Water-supply--Government policy--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Water-supply.
- West (U.S.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 394 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country-shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself. What began as the underwriting of a variety of projects to create family farms and farming communities had become by the 1930's a massive public works and regional development program, with an emphasis on the urban as much as on the rural West.
- Contents:
- Saving lost lives : irrigation and the ideology of homemaking
- The perils of public works : Federal reclamation, 1902-1909
- Case studies in irrigation and community : Twin Falls and Rupert
- An administrative morass : Federal reclamation, 1909-1917
- Boom, bust and boom : Federal reclamation, 1917-1935
- Uneasy allies : the Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Case studies in water and power : the Yakima and the Pima
- Wiring the new West : the strange career of public power
- Gateway to the hydraulic age : water politics, 1920-1935
- Conclusion : retrospect and significance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612356636
- 9780520927582
- 0520927583
- 9781282356634
- 1282356631
- 9781597349895
- 1597349895
- OCLC:
- 475928677
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