Water and American Government The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520230309 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 24 Jan 2003 |
DEWEY: | 333.91150978 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 394 |
Weight: | 740g |
Height: | 165mm |
Width: | 238mm |
Spine width: | 37mm |