Water, land, and law in the West : the limits of public policy, 1850-1920
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Bibliographic Information
Water, land, and law in the West : the limits of public policy, 1850-1920
（Development of western resources / Hal K. Rothman, series editor）
University Press of Kansas, c1996
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Available at 8 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-258) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780700607952
Description
This volume features essays which highlight the central role played by land, water and timber allocation in the American West and shows how efforts to achieve justice and efficiency were compromised by the region's obsession with achieving rapid economic growth.
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: [pbk.] ISBN 9780700611119
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This volume features the best and most influential essays by Donald Pisani, one of our nation's leading environmental and western historians. Collectively, the essays highlight the central role played by land, water, and timber allocation in the American West and show how efforts to achieve justice and efficiency were compromised by the region's obsession with achieving rapid economic growth.
Pisani's work underscores the importance of natural resources to the American vision of opportunity and social progress, as well as the limits of federal influence in resolving the complex tensions between national and local control, between government regulation and laissez-faire capitalism, between democratic and corporate power, and between development and conservation.
His work reminds us that westerners, ever wary of any form of centralized planning, have been far more supportive of the marketplace than government direction, and he demonstrates just how difficult it is to alter natural resource policies to keep pace with changing times and values. For those already familiar with Pisani or those coming to him for the first time, this is an invaluable volume.
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