Water and American Government : The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935.
Title:
Water and American Government : The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935.
Author:
Pisani, Donald J.
ISBN:
9780520927582
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (428 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Saving Lost Lives: Irrigation and the Ideology of Homemaking -- 2. The Perils of Public Works: Federal Reclamation, 1902-1909 -- 3. Case Studies in Irrigation and Community: Twin Falls and Rupert -- 4. An Administrative Morass: Federal Reclamation, 1909-1917 -- 5. Boom, Bust, and Boom: Federal Reclamation, 1917-1935 -- 6. Uneasy Allies: The Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- 7. Case Studies in Water and Power: The Yakima and the Pima -- 8. Wiring the New West: The Strange Career of Public Power -- 9. Gateway to the Hydraulic Age: Water Politics, 1920-1935 -- 10. Conclusion: Retrospect and Significance -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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