Yuri Tulupenko said: >H-Albion has just published a review of Fergus Campbell, >_Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, >1891-1921_, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. > >I believe it somewhat bears upon the ongoing discussion. Indeed it does bear on the previous discussion, thank you. California solved a small part of its parallel problem by enabling and promoting "Irrigation Districts", mostly on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, from about 1887-1930. These legal organizations tax land only, to finance major water supply projects. A good brief account is the chapter by Albert Henley in Becker, Arthur, ca. 1968, *Land and Building Taxation*, Madison: U of Wis. Press. Since then, "graziers" and other giant landowners managed to stifle the spread of I.D.'s, so much of California today still resembles the west of Ireland in 1891. Mason Gaffney