Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley by Kelley, Robert
Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley by Kelley, Robert

Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred...
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Author: Robert Kelley
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Language: English
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Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley by Kelley, Robert

Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley

$146.46
Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley by Kelley, Robert

Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley

$146.46
Author: Robert Kelley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now.

Author: Robert Kelley
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/02/1998
Pages: 420
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.10w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780520214286

About the Author
Robert Kelley is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of The Shaping of the American Past and several other highly esteemed books.
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