| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict. Edited by Char Miller. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. xxix + 354 pp. $45.)

In a year when the Rio Grande runs dry in south Texas, and Klamath Basin farmers seethe over federal irrigation reductions, nothing could be more timely than a book analyzing five centuries of western water conflict. With Fluid Arguments, Char Miller and sixteen authors offer just such a book. 1

The authors cast their net broadly. They cover the Southwest and Southern Plains, and, as American historians are increasingly doing, also cross boundaries, both national and disciplinary. They approach water conflict from a range of professional backgrounds: geography, law, political science, and academic and public history. Several explore water along the Mexican border. The essays also consider many water users' perspectives—Native Americans, Spaniards, Mexicans, bureaucrats, farmers, dam builders, irrigators, judges, ranchers, and environmentalists. . . .

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