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Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935

Pisani, Donald J.

Hardcover

Technology & Engineering20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0520230302
ISBN13: 9780520230309
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 31 2002
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
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.

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