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UNINA9911077488603321 |
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Estate of Robert Bradford Bickerstaff. March 20, 1956. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed |
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Washington, DC : , : [publisher not identified], , 1956 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (5 pages) |
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House report / 84th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 1914 |
[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 11902] |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LaneThomas Joseph <1898-1994> (Democrat (MA)) |
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Inheritance and transfer tax |
Tax protests and appeals |
Legislative materials. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. |
FDLP item number not assigned. |
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UNINA9911148935603321 |
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Autore |
Pisani Donald J |
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Water and American government : the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / / Donald J. Pisani |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
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9786612356636 |
9780520927582 |
0520927583 |
9781282356634 |
1282356631 |
9781597349895 |
1597349895 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 394 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Reclamation of land - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
Water-supply - Government policy - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
West (U.S.) Economic conditions 20th century |
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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 and index. |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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