[PDF] Reclamation Managing Water In The West The Bureau Of Reclamation Origins And Growth To 1945 Vol 1 2006 eBook

Author : William D. Rowley
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.

Author : Janette-Susan Bailey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1137589078

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This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.

Author : Interior Department
Publisher : Reclamation Bureau
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780160913648

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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "

Author : Michael J. Harrower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316552926

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This book offers a new interpretation of the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in long-term histories of arid regions. It compares ancient Southwest Arabia (3500 BC–AD 600) with the American West (2000 BC–AD 1950) in global context to illustrate similarities and differences among environmental, cultural, political, and religious dynamics of water. It combines archaeological exploration and field studies of farming in Yemen with social theory and spatial technologies, including satellite imagery, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping. In both ancient Yemen and the American West, agricultural production focused not where rain-fed agriculture was possible, but in hyper-arid areas where massive state-constructed irrigation schemes politically and ideologically validated state sovereignty. While shaped by profound differences and contingencies, ancient Yemen and the American West are mutually informative in clarifying human geographies of water that are important to understandings of America, Arabia, and contemporary conflicts between civilizations deemed East and West.