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9780140178241

Cadillac Desert The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

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    9780140178241

  • ISBN10:

    0140178244

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-06-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Books

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Summary

"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.

Author Biography

Marc Reisner worked for many years at the Natural Resources Defense Council. His Cadillac Desert was a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. He died in 2000.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Semidesert with a Desert Heart 1(14)
A Country of Illusion
15(37)
The Red Queen
52(52)
First Causes
104(16)
An American Nile (I)
120(25)
The Go-Go Years
145(24)
Rivals in Crime
169(45)
Dominy
214(41)
An American Nile (II)
255(51)
The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel
306(26)
Chinatown
332(47)
Those Who Refuse to Learn
379(56)
Things Fall Apart
435(42)
Epilogue A Civilization, if You Can Keep It 477(19)
Afterword to the Revised Edition 496(23)
Acknowledgments 519(3)
Notes and Bibliography 522(43)
Index 565

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