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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... United States . Bureau of Reclamation . 2. Reclamation of land - West ( U.S . ) — History — 20th century . 3. West ... United States of America 2002008939 10 og 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 To the memory of Robert Kelley This page intentionally ...
... United States . Bureau of Reclamation . 2. Reclamation of land - West ( U.S . ) — History — 20th century . 3. West ... United States of America 2002008939 10 og 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 To the memory of Robert Kelley This page intentionally ...
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... United States could absorb an unlimited amount of new cultivated land. There could never be too much. Once the best land on the Great Plains had been taken, the United States resorted to a form of continental imperialism—reclaiming the ...
... United States could absorb an unlimited amount of new cultivated land. There could never be too much. Once the best land on the Great Plains had been taken, the United States resorted to a form of continental imperialism—reclaiming the ...
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... United States , and leaders in the Reclamation Service tried repeat- edly to extend reclamation to the swamps and cutover lands in the South and upper Midwest . By doing so , they hoped to give the service a national mission and ...
... United States , and leaders in the Reclamation Service tried repeat- edly to extend reclamation to the swamps and cutover lands in the South and upper Midwest . By doing so , they hoped to give the service a national mission and ...
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... United States history I hold at the University of Oklahoma. I have benefited enormously from their benevolence. Ultimately, we measure the quality of our lives by the people we have known. This book is dedicated to Robert Kelley, whose ...
... United States history I hold at the University of Oklahoma. I have benefited enormously from their benevolence. Ultimately, we measure the quality of our lives by the people we have known. This book is dedicated to Robert Kelley, whose ...
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... United States.”2 Frederick Haynes Newell, the first di- rector of the 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 ...
... United States.”2 Frederick Haynes Newell, the first di- rector of the 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 ...
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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