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Water and American government (Record no. 180146)

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fixed length control field 02089nam a22003374a 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 333.91/15/0978
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Pisani, Donald J.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Water and American government
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Berkeley :
Name of publisher University of California Press,
Year of publication c2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xviii, 394 p., [10] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill., maps.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Saving 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Reclamation of land
Topical Term Water-supply
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10050792

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