Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West
by Donald Worster
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 039451680X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394516806
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NY: Pantheon Books, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 402 pages, index, notes. A historical study of the development of the West and how, from the earliest days of development, elites of wealth and technological power have controlled the West's most precious resource: water. An analysis of the opening of the American West views the ecological reality of the area's aridity as the source of political control. Name on front fly leaf, light remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean. Record # 382806
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 382806
- Title
- Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West
- Author
- Donald Worster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 039451680X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394516806
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- History, Regional, , .
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- History;
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