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Control # 1 2002008939
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20200626083659.0
Fixed Data 8 020611s2002 cauabf b s001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2002008939
ISBN 20    $a0520230302 (alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a215093$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-usp--
LC Call 50 00 $aTC823.6$b.P57 2002
Dewey Class 82 00 $a333.91/15/0978$221
ME:Pers Name 100 $aPisani, Donald J.
Title 245 10 $aWater and American government :$bthe Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 /$cDonald J. Pisani.
Imprint 260    $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2002.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axviii, 394 p., [10] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $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.
Subj:Corp 610 10 $aUnited States.$bBureau of Reclamation.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aReclamation of land$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEconomic conditions$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWater-supply$xGovernment policy$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.