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.
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 grea
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520214286
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1eBook ISBN
9780520921214
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- — Preface —
- 1 The Sacramento Valley: Eden Invaded
- 2 The Interplay of American Political Culture and Reclamation Policy: The 1850s
- 3 The Failed Dream: The Swampland Commissioners Experiment 1861-1868
- 4 Crisis on the Yuba and the Feather: The 1860s
- 5 The Struggle Begins: Sutter County in Siege 1866-1875
- Chapter 6 Colusa, the Sacramento River, and the Argument Over What to Do: 1850s-1870s
- Chapter 7 The Levee-Building Spiral Begins: 1867-1880
- Chapter 8 The Parks Dam War: The North and the South in Arms Again 1871-1876
- 9 California Mobilizes for a New Assault on the Inland Sea 1878-1880
- 10 The Great Drainage Act Fight and the Reversion to Flood Control Anarchy: 1880-1886
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- 13 The New American State Drains the Inland Sea: The Sacramento Flood Control Project Becomes Reality 1907-1920
- 14 A Valley Transformed: 1905-1986
- 15 Reflections: The Sacramento Valley as a Case Study in American Political Culture and the Policy Process
- — Notes —
- — Bibliography —
- — Index —
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