Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West

This treatise argues that the American West serves as a testament to a dependence upon water as the "shaping force" of a region's history and development. It defines the West as a "modern hydraulic society" dependent on man-made systems of irrigation such as dams, irrigation ditches and canals.

• | By (Author): Donald (Meyerhoff Professor of American Environmental Studies, Meyerhoff Professor of American Environmental Studies, Brandeis University) Worster
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Aug 20, 1992
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 414 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0195078063
• | ISBN-13: 9780195078060