Search Results - "The Wire"

Mass destruction the men and giant mines that wired America and scarred the planet / by LeCain, Timothy J., 1960-

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Water and American government the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / by Pisani, Donald J.

Table of Contents: “…Saving lost lives : irrigation and the ideology of homemaking -- The perils of public works : Federal reclamation, 1902-1909 -- Case studies in irrigation and community : Twin Falls and Rupert -- An administrative morass : Federal reclamation, 1909-1917 -- Boom, bust and boom : Federal reclamation, 1917-1935 -- Uneasy allies : the Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Case studies in water and power : the Yakima and the Pima -- Wiring the new West : the strange career of public power -- Gateway to the hydraulic age : water politics, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion : retrospect and significance.…”
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