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Worster, Donald Rivers of Empire, Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Oxford University Press 1992 softcover used
from the cover: "The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of water, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, historian Donald Worster, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize, tells the story of this dream and its outcome. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century Mormons and other Westerners dammed and diverted rivers to irrigate land. During the 1930s the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's modern West. But the costs of that achievement have been high: massive ecological damage, redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and class conflict. As a result, the future of the "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand put on it, and declining in quality." Condition: Pages have writing and underlining. Page block has remainder mark on bottom edge. Binding is tight. Cover has rubbing wear, creases, soil, and wear to the edges and corners.
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