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Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy and the West, 1902-1935 Book
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. 20 b/w photographs, 3 mapsRead More
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- 0520230302
- 9780520230309
- DJ Pisani
- 24 January 2003
- University of California Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 390
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