{"product_id":"from-the-family-farm-to-agribusiness-the-irrigation-crusade-in-california-and-the-west-1850-1931","title":"From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: the Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850–1931","description":"\u003cp\u003eBerkeley ; 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pisani, Donald J.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055638827266,"sku":"93721.0","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_6_067df028-5999-4e49-a6ba-f5b777827993.jpg?v=1744075722","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/from-the-family-farm-to-agribusiness-the-irrigation-crusade-in-california-and-the-west-1850-1931","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}