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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ISBN
9781137589071
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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