The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
ISBN-13:
9780300134476
ISBN-10:
0300134479
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
David Schorr
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
256 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780300134476
ISBN-10:
0300134479
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
David Schorr
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
256 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Americas History
Summary
The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) (ISBN-13: 9780300134476 and ISBN-10: 0300134479), written by authors
David Schorr, was published by Yale University Press in 2012.
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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. He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.
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