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Dust Bowl - Depression America to World War Two Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Dust Bowl - Depression America to World War Two Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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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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