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Donald J. Pisani
Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country—shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government
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Donald J. Pisani
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Re
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Donald J. Pisani
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Agricultural History. 81:443-463
In the decade before the California Gold Rush, the popular idea that Americans held a natural right to land as a legacy of the American Revolution was enriched and expanded by such events as the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, the Anti-Rent War in Ne
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Donald J. Pisani
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Agricultural History. 81:464-470
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Donald J. Pisani
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Journal of Policy History. 18:389-418
In 1909, moving freight by rail cost seven to ten times more than by water. Yet despite crowded terminals and a severe shortage of rolling stock, railroads carried eight times more freight by weight than ships and barges, and canal tonnage had fallen
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Donald J. Pisani
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Agricultural History. 77:391-419
"Federal Reclamation and the American West in the Twentieth Century" looks at four phases in the history of the Bureau of Reclamation. The first phase lasted from the adop? tion ofthe Reclamation Act of 1902 into the 1930s. In those years, the bureau
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Donald J. Pisani
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Agricultural History. 76:154-171
Two of the most powerful and enduring intellectual legacies of the conserva? tion "movement" at the turn of the twentieth century are the related concepts ofthe natural integrity of river basins and "multiple-purpose" water planning. Charles Van Hise
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Donald J. Pisani
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Environmental History. 5:466-482
There is a wonderful, no doubt apocryphal, story about the American writer, Gertrude Stein. As Stein lay dying in 1946, her friends supposedly gathered around her bed, hoping not just to comfort her at the end, but to profit from the wisdom of her fi
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Donald J. Pisani
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California History. 77:123-148