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Spanish Water, Anglo Water : Early Development in San Antonio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (196 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781603443258
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spanish Water, Anglo WaterDDC classification:
  • 333.91009764/351
LOC classification:
  • HD1695.S35 -- P676 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENT S -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DROUGHTS AND DELUGES -- 2 THE COUNTRY OF 1,10 0 SPRINGS -- 3 EYEWITNESS REPORTSOF GOD'S WATER -- 4 MISSIONS SET TLE SAN ANTONIO -- 5 ACEQUIA TECHNOLOGY -- 6 DERECHO INDIANO-LAWWITH JUS TICE -- 7 WATER, LAND, AND WORK -- 8 CONFLIC T, COOPERATION,AND COMPROMISE -- 9 NEW PEOPLE, OLD LAWS -- 10 ACEQUIAS OVERWHELMED -- 11 THE FIRST WATER WORKS COMPANY -- 12 WATER-POLITICIANS' "GOLD" -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: Porter offers a meticulous chronicling of the origins and often-contentious development of water rights in San Antonio from its Spanish settlement through the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Intro -- CONTENT S -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DROUGHTS AND DELUGES -- 2 THE COUNTRY OF 1,10 0 SPRINGS -- 3 EYEWITNESS REPORTSOF GOD'S WATER -- 4 MISSIONS SET TLE SAN ANTONIO -- 5 ACEQUIA TECHNOLOGY -- 6 DERECHO INDIANO-LAWWITH JUS TICE -- 7 WATER, LAND, AND WORK -- 8 CONFLIC T, COOPERATION,AND COMPROMISE -- 9 NEW PEOPLE, OLD LAWS -- 10 ACEQUIAS OVERWHELMED -- 11 THE FIRST WATER WORKS COMPANY -- 12 WATER-POLITICIANS' "GOLD" -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Porter offers a meticulous chronicling of the origins and often-contentious development of water rights in San Antonio from its Spanish settlement through the beginning of the twentieth century.

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