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Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935. By Donald J. Pisani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, index. Cloth $49.95.
For most environmental historians who might find themselves playing the word association game, "reclamation" would elicit one, instantaneous response: Donald Pisani. With this second volume in a three-volume history of water in the West, Pisani establishes himself as the historian who has focused the most sustained attention on the development of federal reclamation policy, and Water and American Government not only will fill out our picture considerably, but also will provide plenty of fertile ground for debate about the relationship between reclamation and modern American government. . . .
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