This treatise argues that the American West serves as a testament to a dependence upon water as the "shaping force" of a region's history and development. It defines the West as a "modern hydraulic society" dependent on man-made systems of irrigation such as dams, irrigation ditches and canals.


Format Häftad Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Oxford University Press Inc Utgivningsdatum 1992-08-20 ISBN 9780195078060