Rivers of Empire Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West by Donald Worster 1985 Pantheon History books
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This is a very good hardcover with dust jacket. 1985 Pantheon Books. This copy is still very good inside and out. The inside pages are actually still crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Black hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is still clean and shiny with only hints of shelf wear. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 402 pages including index.
Rivers of Empire by Donald Woster is subtitled Water, Aridity & The Growth of the American West. The author shows readers how, from the earliest days of The Old West development, elites of wealth and technological power have controlled the West's most precious resource: water. West of the 100th meridian, America is a dry land and the story of its settlement has been one of the constant struggle for water. Water has been at the center of history from the turn of the century when railroad barons were given 1/10th of the land in California to develop, to the Depression era when wealthy growers monopolized the region's cheap publicly subsidized water supple, right up to today where there is a tug-of-war for water The book is a dramatic recreation of the regions history. It highlights social and economic stratification, exploitation of migrant workers, lethal pollution, and dependence on technocrats who manage the hydraulic system.
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