Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195078060 (0195078063)
Publish date: June 18th 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Worster draws heavily on Wittfogel’s idea of the hydraulic society, to argue that despite American myth, the western states really grew as a result of “authority and restraint, of class and exploitation, and ultimately of imperial power.” (4) In the process of harnessing nature in the form of water...
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