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Contents Tables and Maps 000 Preface 000 Acknowledgments 000 Part I. Rivers and State Authority 000 Chapter 1. Infrastructure Builds the State 000 Chapter 2. The Founding Principles of River Development 000 Part II. Regional Competition and the Rise of the Flood Control Campaign 000 Chapter 3. The Mississippi River: Becoming the Nation's River 000 Chapter 4. The Mississippi River: Resentment Leading to Civil War 000 Chapter 5. The Mississippi River: Post-war Reunification, Post-war Aid 000 Chapter 6. The Sacramento River: Miners versus Farmers 000 Chapter 7. The Sacramento River: Capitalists Unify for Development 000 Part III. Redesigning Rivers in the National Interest 000 Chapter 8. Federal Aid for the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers 000 Chapter 9. The Fully Designed River 000 Chapter 10. Flood Control for All Rivers 000 Chapter 11. Rivers by Design 000 Appendix 1. River Improvement Conventions 000 Appendix 2. Mississippi River Levee Association, Executive Committee 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Flood control -- Government policy -- United States.
River engineering -- Government policy -- United States.
River engineering -- Mississippi River.
Flood control -- California -- Sacramento River.
River engineering -- California -- Sacramento River.
Flood control -- Mississippi River.
State rights.