الناشر | Oxford University Press Inc |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13 | 9780195078060 |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 10 | 0195078063 |
الكاتب | Donald Worster |
اللغة | English |
وصف الكتاب | Donald Worster examines the development history of the American West, identifying the élite of technology and wealth who have controlled its most essential resource: water. |
عن المؤلف | Donald Worster, who won the Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is also the author of The Ends of the Earth, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, and the forthcoming Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. |
تاريخ النشر | 1992-08-20 |
عدد الصفحات | 414 pages |
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West