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

by Donald J. Pisani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520230302
• ISBN13: 9780520230309
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.5"