The Colorado Doctrine : Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier Hardback
by David Schorr
Part of the Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference series
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Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the “appropriation doctrine,†a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West.
Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among independent citizens. Â He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.
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- Pages:256 pages, 15 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:27/11/2012
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- ISBN:9780300134476
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 15 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:27/11/2012
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- ISBN:9780300134476
