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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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New Deal Era Storytelling: A Rich Blend of Ideas that Converged in US Dust Bowl Imagery
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Soil and the US Dust Bowl: American Imagery Converges with the Australian
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Water and “Dust Bowls”: American Imagery Converges with the Australian
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Janette-Susan Bailey holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia and has a combined Honors degree in Film, Theatre and Performance Studies / Environmental Studies. She has a background in environmental performance writing and has been nationally and internationally recognized for her cross disciplinary approaches to historical research. She has published in international journals including Environment and History.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dust Bowl
Book Subtitle: Depression America to World War Two Australia
Authors: Janette-Susan Bailey
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58907-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58049-8Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58907-1Published: 04 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 353
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Cultural History