Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780195078060 |
ISBN 10 | 0195078063 |
Author | Donald Worster |
Language | English |
Book Description | 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. |
About the Author | 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. |
Publication Date | 1992-08-20 |
Number of Pages | 414 pages |
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West