Dust bowl : Depression America to World War Two Australia / Janette-Susan Bailey.
2016
QC929.26
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Title
Dust bowl : Depression America to World War Two Australia / Janette-Susan Bailey.
ISBN
9781137589071 (electronic book)
1137589078 (electronic book)
1137580496
9781137580498
1137589078 (electronic book)
1137580496
9781137580498
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
QC929.26
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.3492
Summary
This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the 'dust bowl' concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. 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. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia's iconic Snowy River-that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 7, 2016).
Series
Palgrave studies in world environmental history.
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