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A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water

ISBN: 9781555913663 | 1555913660
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 7/24/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
A study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation.

The history of water development . . . offers a particularly fine post for observing the astonishing and implausible workings of historical change and, in response, for cultivating an appropriate level of humility and modesty in our anticipations of our own unknowable future. Tracing the origins and growth of the Denver Water Department, this study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation, r... MORE
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Forewordp. xxi
Introductionp. 1
Engineered Edenp. 17
Go Take It from the Mountainp. 51
Water Development: "The Plot Thickens"p. 85
Dealing in Diversionsp. 101
A Horrifying Jigsaw Puzzle: The Uncertain Course of the Rivers of Empirep. 131
No Country f... MOREp. 165
Chipping Away at Tradition: The Riddle of Change and Continuity at Denver Waterp. 213
Conclusion Turning Hindsight into Foresight: Denver Water as a Parablep. 251
Afterword: Two Decades at a Western Water Utility: Some Reflections, Observations, and Occasional Insights by Chips Barryp. 277
Notesp. 287
Further Readingsp. 311
Indexp. 317
About the Authorp. 327
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Patricia Nelson Limerick is the faculty director and board chair of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is also a professor of history and environmental studies. She has received a Mac-Arthur Fellowship and is considered one of the leading historians of the American West. She currently serves as the vice president for the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association. Her most widely read book, The Legacy of Conquest, is in its twenty-fifth year of publication. Jason L. Hanson is a member of the research faculty at the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where his work focuses on natural, resource use and the environment. He lives in Denver.


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