Water and American government : the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / / Donald J. Pisani
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| Autore: |
Pisani Donald J
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| Titolo: |
Water and American government : the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / / Donald J. Pisani
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2002 |
| ©2002 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 394 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 333.91/15/0978 |
| Soggetto topico: | Reclamation of land - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
| Water-supply - Government policy - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Economic conditions 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1930s |
| agriculture | |
| american west | |
| arable land | |
| arizona | |
| boulder dam | |
| bureau of indian affairs | |
| bureau of reclamation | |
| california | |
| carey act | |
| drought | |
| ecology | |
| family farms | |
| farming communities | |
| farming | |
| frontier | |
| government programs | |
| irrigation projects | |
| land development | |
| land management | |
| native americans | |
| nature | |
| nonfiction | |
| pima | |
| politics | |
| public works | |
| rupert idaho | |
| rural | |
| social program | |
| teddy roosevelt | |
| the new deal | |
| twin falls | |
| urban america | |
| us history | |
| water policy | |
| water rights | |
| water use | |
| water | |
| western history | |
| yakima | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Water and American government |
| ISBN: | 0-520-92758-3 |
| 9786612356636 | |
| 1-282-35663-1 | |
| 1-59734-989-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780377203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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