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Water and American government : the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935

Author: Donald J Pisani
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Publisher description: 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  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Donald J Pisani
ISBN: 0520230302 9780520230309
OCLC Number: 50035410
Description: xviii, 394 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Donald J. Pisani.
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Publisher description: 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 1930s a massive public works and regional development program, with an emphasis on the urban as much as on the rural West.

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