Bøger af Douglas R. Littlefield

Provides a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West.

In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the Rio Grande, Douglas Littlefield describes early interstate and international water-apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate to the development of western water law and policy and to international relations with Mexico.