{"product_id":"the-great-thirst-californians-and-water-a-history-paperback","title":"The Great Thirst: Californians and Water: A History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorris Hundley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of \"the great thirst\" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised and expanded edition of Professor Hundley's seminal history now includes a fascinating treatment of important developments in the California water arena during the 1990s. The new edition is must-reading for all who hope to understand the California water scene.--Henry Vaux, Jr., University of California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best reference on California water history that there is.\"--William Kahrl, author of \u003ci\u003eWater and Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorris Hundley, Jr. \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Thirst, \u003c\/i\u003ea bestseller in its first edition, was preceded by other books including \u003ci\u003eCalifornia: History of a Remarkable State \u003c\/i\u003e(with John Caughey, 1982).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 822\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 02, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453473407154,"sku":"9780520224568","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ac34f7b2112b323bf333f2c2189db942.webp?v=1778831767","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-great-thirst-californians-and-water-a-history-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}