MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aTC823.6$b.P57 2002
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100 1 $aPisani, Donald J.
245 10 $aWater and American government :$bthe Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 /$cDonald J. Pisani.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2002.
300 $axviii, 394 p., [10] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSaving lost lives : irrigation and the ideology of homemaking -- The perils of public works : Federal reclamation, 1902-1909 -- Case studies in irrigation and community : Twin Falls and Rupert -- An administrative morass : Federal reclamation, 1909-1917 -- Boom, bust and boom : Federal reclamation, 1917-1935 -- Uneasy allies : the Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Case studies in water and power : the Yakima and the Pima -- Wiring the new West : the strange career of public power -- Gateway to the hydraulic age : water politics, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion : retrospect and significance.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bBureau of Reclamation.
650 0 $aReclamation of land$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEconomic conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aWater-supply$xGovernment policy$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
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