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Dust Bowl: Depression America to World War Two Australia: 2016 (Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History) by Janette-Susan Bailey (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Janette-Susan Bailey (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US, Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137589071

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Social Science, Science