From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: the Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850–1931

Berkeley ; London: University of California Press, 1984. Quarto in white jacket; xiii, 521 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 457-499) and index. Fine in an about very good lightly spine-sunned jacket with a few closed tears; now housed in archival myalr. See photos. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780520051270

Contents: Preface -- Introduction: nineteenth-century California, a fragmented commonwealth -- The crucible of Western water law, 1850-1872 -- Panacea or curse: attitudes toward irrigation in nineteenth-century California -- Schemers and dreamers: California's first irrigation projects -- Irrigation in the 1870s: the origins of corporate reclamation in the arid West -- Response to monopoly: institutional roots of the irrigation district, 1868-1885 -- William Hammond Hall and state administrative control over water in the nineteenth century -- Lux v. Haggin: the battle of the water lords -- The Wright Act, 1887-1897: promise unfulfilled -- The beginnings of federal reclamation in California -- The state asserts itself: irrigation and the law in the progressive period -- Toward a state water plan: the genesis of the Central Valley Project -- Conclusion: the lost dream. / Irrigation -- Economic aspects -- California -- History.  Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- California -- History.  Irrigation -- Aspect économique -- Californie -- Histoire.  Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Californie -- Histoire.  Agriculture -- Economic aspects.  Irrigation -- Economic aspects.  Bewässerungsfeldbau  Agrarstruktur  Strukturwandel  Landwirtschaft  Geschichte (1850-1931)  History.  California.  Kalifornien California; Arid regions; Irrigation, 1850-1931.; Socioeconomic aspects