Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935University of California Press, 2002 M12 31 - 408 pages 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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The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 ... Service has been carried out with a high degree of success , ” the nation's ... Service can be shown to have been extravagant and inefficient in its work , then a ...
The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 ... Service has been carried out with a high degree of success , ” the nation's ... Service can be shown to have been extravagant and inefficient in its work , then a ...
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... Reclamation Service, predicted that ultimately the reclaimed lands of the arid and semiarid West would support a population twice as large as that of the entire United States in 1900: “The dead and profitless deserts need only the magic ...
... Reclamation Service, predicted that ultimately the reclaimed lands of the arid and semiarid West would support a population twice as large as that of the entire United States in 1900: “The dead and profitless deserts need only the magic ...
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The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Donald J. Pisani. plenished by the sale of reclaimed flood land . He entrusted all work to the Reclamation Service , bypassing the Army Corps of Engineers and the ...
The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Donald J. Pisani. plenished by the sale of reclaimed flood land . He entrusted all work to the Reclamation Service , bypassing the Army Corps of Engineers and the ...
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... reclamation was sold to the public as a series of tech- nological triumphs and individual success stories—often in the nineteenth- century rags-to-riches style. The Reclamation Service boasted about the cosmopolitan population of its ...
... reclamation was sold to the public as a series of tech- nological triumphs and individual success stories—often in the nineteenth- century rags-to-riches style. The Reclamation Service boasted about the cosmopolitan population of its ...
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... Reclamation Record published poems to inspire confidence. “Be a Booster,” appeared in 1923: Boost and the world ... Service policies or disagreed with the magazine's rosy editorials.37 The crusade against knockers reflected the inability and ...
... Reclamation Record published poems to inspire confidence. “Be a Booster,” appeared in 1923: Boost and the world ... Service policies or disagreed with the magazine's rosy editorials.37 The crusade against knockers reflected the inability and ...
Contents
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Federal Reclamation 19021909 | 32 |
Twin Falls and Rupert | 65 |
Federal Reclamation 19091917 | 96 |
Federal Reclamation 19171935 | 123 |
The Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs | 154 |
Illustrations | 180 |
The Yakima and the Pima | 181 |
The Strange Career of Public Power | 202 |
Water Politics 19201935 | 235 |
Retrospect and Significance | 272 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 297 |
NOTES | 299 |
INDEX | 389 |
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