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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Fort Worth, Tex., : TCU Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 346.7304/32 |
| Soggetto topico: | Water rights - Arizona |
| Water rights - California | |
| Water-supply - Arizona | |
| Water-supply - California | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Water rights |
| Arizona Trials, litigation, etc | |
| California Trials, litigation, etc | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-166) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dividing western waters |
| ISBN: | 1-283-97206-9 |
| 0-87565-464-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815395703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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