- History, Government policy, Irrigation, Water resources development
"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.
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Earnest, plot-driven, epic and grave.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Marc Reisner
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 582
- Publisher
- Books on Tape, Inc., Books On Tape, Viking
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670199273
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“The American West was explored by white men half a century before the first colonists set foot on Virginia's beaches, but it went virtually uninhabited by whites for another three hundred years.”
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