RIVERS OF EMPIRE: WATER, ARIDITY, AND THE GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN WEST

by Donald Worster

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986 . Octavo, pp. i-vi vii-x xi-xii 1-2 3-402 403: about the author 404: blank , cloth-backed boards. First edition. This is a major study, one that should be read and considered by every student of western life and letters. Donald Worster boldly challenges the Turner hypothesis, among other cherished notions, and presents instead the picture of a technological empire based

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