Water and American Government
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1930s
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agriculture
american west
arable land
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bureau of reclamation
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family farms
farming
farming communities
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government programs
irrigation projects
land development
land management
native americans
nature
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pima
politics
public works
rupert idaho
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teddy roosevelt
the new deal
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urban america
us history
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520230309
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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.
Donald J. Pisani is Merrick Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. His books include a previous history to which this one is a sequel, To Reclaim a Divided West (1992), as well as Water, Land, and Law in the West (1996) and From the Family Farm to Agribusiness (California, 1984).
