Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520230309)

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.

Author: Donald J. Pisani
ISBN-10: 0520230302
ISBN-13: 9780520230309
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2002
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.24w x 1.28d