Dust bowl : Depression America to World War Two Australia /: Depression America to World War Two Australia. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Depression America to World War Two Australia; Depression America to World War II Australia
• Further Information: Note: Janette-Susan Bailey.
• Authors: Bailey, Janette-Susan
• Contents: 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 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 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 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 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
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.3492; History; Droughts -- United States; Droughts -- Australia; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Droughts; History -- World; History -- Modern -- General; History -- Social History; General & world history; History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history; World history; History, Modern; History -- United States -- General; History of the Americas; Australia; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137589071; 1137589078
• Related ISBNs: 1137580496; 9781137580498
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2016).
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