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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Donald J. Pisani. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 394. $49.95.

This volume is the second in a series of three by Donald J. Pisani that began with To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848–1902 (1992); the author plans a concluding work taking the story from the New Deal to the 1980s. As the titles and dates suggest, Pisani has undertaken the most comprehensive survey to date of water policy in the United States. Focusing on the reclamation era, this volume is informative, painstaking, firmly rooted in archival sources, by turns both analytical and descriptive: in short, altogether reliable. It is a book for specialists in the field of water policy, yet copious detail is also relieved by engaging case study comparisons and cogent political interpretations. Underpinning the whole is a bold demonstration of how an ideologically inspired and politically constructed policy regime results in abject failure judged by standards of equity and efficiency.

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