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Cadillac desert

  • Marc Reisner

4.67

3 ratings

"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.

Genres

  • History
  • Government policy
  • Irrigation
  • Water resources development
  • Political corruption
  • Corruption (in politics)
  • Nonfiction
  • Technology
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
  • Corruption in politics
  • West (U.S.)
  • Hist
  • Water-supply, united states
  • West (u.s.), history
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  • Marc Reisner

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Editions

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    Penguin USA, Inc.

    2009

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    New Ed edition

    Pimlico

    March 1, 2001

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    Rev. and updated

    Penguin Books

    1993

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    Viking

    1986

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Rev. and updated.

Douglas & McIntyre, Penguin

1993

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    Penguin Books

    1987

  • Edition cover

    Viking

    1986

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    Books on Tape, Inc.

    March 1, 1990

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    Secker & Warburg

    January 8, 1990

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    Books on Tape, Inc.

    March 1, 1990

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    Books On Tape

    January 1986