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A High Tide of History: Values, Conflicts, and Transformations in Water History
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HundleyNorrisJr., The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s–1990s (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 455. $25.00).
SteinbergTheodore, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 284 $34.50).
SherowJames Earl, Watering the Valley: Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870–1950 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. xiv, 222. $29.95).
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1. Powell, J. W., Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States (Washington, D.C., 1879), 1–45Google Scholar.
2. Representative water histories written by nonprofessional historians include: Smythe, William Ellsworth, The Conquest of Arid America (New York: Harper & Bros., 1900)Google Scholar; Newell, Frederick H., Irrigation in the United States (New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co, 1902)Google Scholar; and Mead, Elwood, Irrigation Institutions (New York: Macmillan, 1903)Google Scholar.
3. A useful overview of water-resource historiography is given by Lee, Lawrence B. in “Historiographical Essay: Water Resource History: A New Field of Historiography?,” Pacific Historical Review 62:4 (November 1988): 457–67CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and also Smallwood, J. B. Jr. in “Historical Perspective on Water and the Western Environment: A Selective Bibliography of Recent Writings,” Journal of the West 22 (April 1983): 3–8Google Scholar.
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5. The range of topics taken up by water historians in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, many of which focused on themes of political conflict, is represented by: Blake, Nelson M., Water for the Cities: A History of Urban Water Supply Problems in the United States (Syracuse, N.Y., 1956)Google Scholar; Richardson, Elmo, Dams, Parks, and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era (Lexington, Ky., 1973)Google Scholar; Hoffman, Abraham, Vision and Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Valley Water Controversy (College Station, Tex., 1981Google Scholar; Kahrl, William L., Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982)Google Scholar; King, Judson, The Conservation Fight: From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority (Washington, D.C., 1959)Google Scholar; Hubbard, Preston J., Origins of the TVA: The Muscle Shoals Controversy (Nashville, Tenn., 1961)Google Scholar; McCraw, Thomas K., TVA and the Power Fight, 1933–1939 (Philadelphia, 1971)Google Scholar; Matthews, Olen Paul, Water Resources, Geography and Law (Washington, D.C., 1984)Google Scholar; Lyall, Thomas Angus, Power from Water (London, 1961)Google Scholar.
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10. In addition to books already cited by Donald J. Pisani, Abraham Hoffman, William Kahrl, and Donald Worster, Hundley acknowledges his scholarly indebtedness to: Kelly, Robert, Gold vs. Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley: A Chapter in the Decline of Laissez-Faire (Glendale, Calif., 1959)Google Scholar and Battling the Inland Sea:American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1989)Google Scholar.
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