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UNINA9910815395703321 |
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August Jack L |
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Titolo |
Dividing western waters [[electronic resource] ] : Mark Wilmer and Arizona v. California / / Jack L. August, Jr. ; with a foreword by John Bouma |
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Fort Worth, Tex., : TCU Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-97206-9 |
0-87565-464-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Water rights - Arizona |
Water rights - California |
Water-supply - Arizona |
Water-supply - California |
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Water rights |
Arizona Trials, litigation, etc |
California Trials, litigation, etc |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-166) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: MIDWEST TO SOUTHWEST; Chapter 2: THE FIRM AND THE RIVER; Chapter 3: A QUESTION OF RELEVANCE; Chapter 4: ARIZONA ADRIFT; Chapter 5: ARIZONA V CALIFORNIA; Chapter 6: ENTER MARK WILMER; Chapter 7: A BRAVE NEW WATER WORLD: LAW, POLITICS, AND CAP; Chapter 8: THAT LAWYER FROM ARIZONA; APPENDICES; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Brown v the Board of Education, and even subsequent televised high profile murder trials pale in comparison to Arizona v California, argues author Jack August in Dividing Western Waters, August's look at Arizona's Herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River. To this day Arizona v California is still influential.By the time Mark Wilmer settled in the Salt River Valley in the early 1930's, he realized that four basic commodities made possible |
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