Rivers of empire : water, aridity, and the growth of the American West.

Auteur :
WORSTER, D.

Description :
Focus is on the effort made within last century to make the dry West agriculturally productive by trapping its scarce water in huge irrigation projects. A. asserts that the West is built on a sharply alienating, intensely managerial relationship with nature , carved out by the apparatus of the capitalist state. - (DWG)


Type de document :
Monographie

Source :
nombre de pages : 402, Références bibliographiques : 535 réf.

Date :
1986

Identifiants :
isbn : 0-394-52680-X

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, New York, Pantheon Books