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History

Books:

Chapelle, F. (2005). Wellsprings: A natural history of bottled spring waters. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Coward, H. (1998). Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim: Tensions and values. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Halliday, S. (2004). Water: A turbulent history. Stroud, England: Sutton.

Harden, B. (1996). A river lost: The life and death of the Columbia (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.

Hundley, N., Jr. (2001). The great thirst: Californians and water -a history (Rev. ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Miller, C. (2001). Fluid arguments: Five centuries of western water conflict. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Mullen, T. (2004). Rivers of change: Trailing the waterways of Lewis and Clark. Malibu, CA: Roundwood Press.

Orr, E., & Orr, W. (2005). Oregon water: An environmental history. Portland, OR: Inkwater Press.

Pisani, D. J. (2002). Water and American government: The Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pisani, D. J., & Rothman, f. H. K. (1996). Water, land, and law in the West: The limits of public policy, 1850-1920. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Reisner, M. (1986). Cadillac desert: The American West and its disappearing water. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1987.

Short, C. (1983). Water: Portland's precious heritage. Portland, OR: City of Portland.

Worster, D. (1992). Rivers of empire: Water, aridity, and the growth of the American West. Oxford, England: Oxford University.

Articles:

Hundley, N., Jr. (1996). Water and the West in historical imagination. Western Historical Quarterly, 27(1), 4-31.

Hundley, N., Jr. (2004). Water and the West in historical imagination: Part two - a decade later. Historian, 66(3), 455-490.

Lee, L. B. (1988). Water resource history: A new field of historiography? Pacific Historical Review, 57(4), 457-467.

Orsi, J. (2005). Reclaiming the city: Water history in the urban North American West. Journal of the West, 44(3), 8-11.

 
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