Prof David Schorr: 1 book
The Colorado Doctrine
Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
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,...
