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Dividing Western Waters: Mark Wilmer and Arizona V.California
Jack L. August
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Description for Dividing Western Waters: Mark Wilmer and Arizona V.California
hardcover. For Arizona, the seminal water case, Arizona v California, the longest Supreme Court case in American history (1952-1963), constituted an important step in the construction of the Central Arizona Project. This work looks at Arizona's herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River. Num Pages: 192 pages, 59 b&w photos, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KBBWZ; LNCR; RNF; TQSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Brown v. Board of Education, and even subsequent televised high-profile murder trials pale in comparison to Arizona v. California, argues author Jack August in ""Dividing Western Waters"", August's look at Arizona's herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River. To this day Arizona v. California is still influential. By the time Mark Wilmer settled in the Salt River Valley in the early 1930s, he realized that four basic commodities made possible civilization in the arid West: land, air, sunshine, and water. For Arizona, the seminal water ... Read more
The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Brown v. Board of Education, and even subsequent televised high-profile murder trials pale in comparison to Arizona v. California, argues author Jack August in ""Dividing Western Waters"", August's look at Arizona's herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River. To this day Arizona v. California is still influential. By the time Mark Wilmer settled in the Salt River Valley in the early 1930s, he realized that four basic commodities made possible civilization in the arid West: land, air, sunshine, and water. For Arizona, the seminal water ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653549
SKU
V9780875653549
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About Jack L. August
Historian, Fulbright scholar, and native Arizonan, JACK L. AUGUST, JR., is director of the Arizona Historical Foundation and has served as a professor of history at Arizona State University and Prescott College. August has published extensively on the American West.
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