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Dust Bowl

Depression America to World War Two Australia
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353 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am17.10.20161st ed. 2016
Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert.mehr
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KlappentextDust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-58049-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum17.10.2016
Auflage1st ed. 2016
ReihePalgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Seiten353 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht575 g
IllustrationenXXII, 353 p. 38 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.37345892
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
.Chapter One: Ideas: American exceptionalism, social realism, women, deserts, documentary, soil and civilization.-.Chapter Two: Three Dust Bowl narratives: farmer attitudes, human erosion, women and natural diaster.-.Chapter Three: Battlefield of the South-West Pacific: soil erosion, enemies, graziers and traitors in Australian 'dust bowl' imagery.-.Chapter Four: The Australian constitution and state politics: creeping deserts and human extinction in 'Dust bowl' warnings of impending doom.- .Chapter Five: Dust Storms and "the despair of the housewife": war-time wind erosion as 'natural diaster'.-.Chapter Six: "Battle of the rivers," battle of the stories: 'Dust bowls', dams, TVAs and a Snowy Mountains Scheme.-.Conclusion: "Just a 'Bloody Duststorm'?".mehr

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Autor

Janette-Susan Bailey holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia and has a combined Honors degree in Film, Theatre and Performance Studies / Environmental Studies. She has a background in environmental performance writing and has been nationally and internationally recognized for her cross disciplinary approaches to historical research. She has published in international journals including Environment and History.
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