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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... Economic conditions - 20th century . 4. Water - supply- Government policy - West ( U.S . ) - History - 20th century . I. Title . TC823.6.P57 2002 333.91'15'0978 - dc21 Manufactured in the United States of America 2002008939 10 og 08 07 ...
... Economic conditions - 20th century . 4. Water - supply- Government policy - West ( U.S . ) - History - 20th century . I. Title . TC823.6.P57 2002 333.91'15'0978 - dc21 Manufactured in the United States of America 2002008939 10 og 08 07 ...
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... economic prosperity. Between 1870 and 1900, the opening of the Great Plains to agriculture more than dou- bled the ... economy, based on mining and cattle, did not offer a sound foundation for future eco- nomic and population growth.4 ...
... economic prosperity. Between 1870 and 1900, the opening of the Great Plains to agriculture more than dou- bled the ... economy, based on mining and cattle, did not offer a sound foundation for future eco- nomic and population growth.4 ...
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... economic problems . Money for reclamation projects dried up during the 1890s , and the value of rural land fell precipitously . The future of the region , which looked so bright in the 1880s , now appeared ominous and forbidding . Could ...
... economic problems . Money for reclamation projects dried up during the 1890s , and the value of rural land fell precipitously . The future of the region , which looked so bright in the 1880s , now appeared ominous and forbidding . Could ...
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... economic backwardness, but because they had been shortchanged by Congress in the decades after the Civil War: the two major sources of pork in the federal budget, Civil War veterans' pensions and river and harbor appropriations, both ...
... economic backwardness, but because they had been shortchanged by Congress in the decades after the Civil War: the two major sources of pork in the federal budget, Civil War veterans' pensions and river and harbor appropriations, both ...
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... economic development. In 1902, no one under- stood how far the federal government would go beyond building dams and canals; many expected it to engage in large-scale social planning as well. “The passage of the National Irrigation Law ...
... economic development. In 1902, no one under- stood how far the federal government would go beyond building dams and canals; many expected it to engage in large-scale social planning as well. “The passage of the National Irrigation Law ...
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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