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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Palgrave studies in world environmental history
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Palgrave studies in world environmental history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgments; Notes; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction: The World Is a Dust Bowl; Looking at Dust Bowl Imagery Through a Transnational and a Cultural Lens; Cultural History, Environmental History, Women, Politics, War, and Soil; Environmental Ideas of the Past: What Do They Look Like?; Notes; Part 1: New Deal Era Storytelling: A Rich Blend of Ideas that Converged in US Dust Bowl Imagery; Chapter 2: Ideas: American Exceptionalism, Social Realism, Women, Deserts, Documentary, Soil, and Civilization; The New Deal. |
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New Deal Soil Conservation Ideas: A Sound Basis for an Epic Dust Bowl Story"Bad" Attitudes of Mind and the Myth of American National Exceptionalism; The "Garden of the World": Conservation Narratives and Myths About Deserts And Gardens; Soil and Civilization; Women, Wild Nature, Civilization; Technological Optimism and the "Organic Machine"69; Deserts: Frederic Clements, Ecology, and Climate; "Man-Made Deserts": Controversy; A Longer Perspective on Drought: Turning to the Geological Record; Human Erosion; Social Realism; Notes. |
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Chapter 3: Three Dust Bowl Narratives: Farmer Attitudes, Human Erosion, Women, and Natural DisasterEngaging Americans with Civilizations, Immoral Farmers, Desert Decline, and Housewives; Graveyards of Empires; Changing Bad "Attitudes of Mind"; Dramatizing a Paradox: Tractors and Technological Salvation; Human Erosion Narratives; Women and Human Erosion: Ma Joad, Woman of the High Plains, and Migrant Mother; Denial and the Housewife: Just a Dry Spell; Implicit Denial in Gendered Narratives; Dust Bowl Stories: A Second Wind in Australia?; Notes. |
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Part 2: Soil and the US Dust Bowl: American Imagery Converges with the AustralianChapter 4: Battlefields of the South-West Pacific: Australian Soil Erosion, Enemies, Graziers, and Traitors in "Dust Bowl" Imagery; Knowledge Gaps: "The Farmer's Mind" and Other Causes of Wind Erosion; Sam Clayton and a Spectacular Story to Shock the Nation; New Dealers, Sheep, and Saltbush in Australia's "Dust Bowl" Story; The Impacts of Singapore: New Battles, Enemies, Traitors, and Saviors; The Expert as Savior in Australia is Developing a Dust Bowl; Sabotage: Naming the Traitor. |
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The Evolving "Dust Bowl" Idea: Impacts on the Media, Politicians, Graziers, and Soil ExpertsAustralian War Correspondent Bruce Miller and "Dust Bowls"; Notes; Chapter 5: The Australian Constitution and State Politics: Creeping Deserts and Human Extinction in "Dust Bowl" Warnings of Impending Doom; "Reaching Sandy Tentacles into Our Good Lands": Desert Myth; Wind Erosion, "Downfall" Narratives, and State Borders; Horrifying Pictures of an Imaginary Danger? The Australian Media's Objectives; "We Must Save 'This Good Earth' − Or Die": The Stories; Human Erosion on Film |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Droughts -- United States.
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Droughts. |
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United States. |
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Droughts -- Australia.
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Australia. |
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Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
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Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939. |
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General & world history. |
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History: earliest times to present day. |
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Social & cultural history. |
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History of the Americas. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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1931-1939 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Depression America to World War Two Australia |
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Depression America to World War II Australia |
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Print version: Bailey, Janette-Susan. Dust bowl. [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 1137580496 (OCoLC)942380871 |
| ISBN |
9781137589071 (electronic book) |
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1137589078 (electronic book) |
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1137580496 |
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9781137580498 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/978-1-137-58907-1 |
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