From the family farm to agribusiness the irrigation crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931 /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1984.
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| Linkit: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973113 |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Nineteenth-Century California, a Fragmented Commonwealth
- 2. The Crucible of Western Water Law, 1850-1872
- 3. Panacea or Curse: Attitudes Toward Irrigation in Nineteenth-Century California
- 4. Schemers and Dreamers: California's First Irrigation Projects
- 5. Irrigation in the 1870s: The Origins of Corporate Reclamation in the Arid West
- 6. Response to Monopoly: Institutional Roots of the Irrigation District, 1868-1885
- 7. William Hammond Hall and State Administrative Control over Water in the Nineteenth Century
- 8. Lux v. Haggin: The Battle of the Water Lords
- 9. The Wright Act, 1887-1897: Promise Unfulfilled
- 10. The Beginnings of Federal Reclamation in California
- 11. The State Asserts Itself: Irrigation and the Law in the Progressive Period
- 12. Toward a State Water Plan: The Genesis of the Central Valley Project
- 13. Conclusion: The Lost Dream
- Bibliography
- Index