Bailey, Janette-Susan
Dust Bowl
1. Introduction: The World Is a Dust Bowl
Janette-Susan Bailey
Part 1. New Deal Era Storytelling: A Rich Blend of Ideas that Converged in US Dust Bowl Imagery
2. Ideas: American Exceptionalism, Social Realism, Women, Deserts, Documentary, Soil, and Civilization
Janette-Susan Bailey
3. Three Dust Bowl Narratives: Farmer Attitudes, Human Erosion, Women, and Natural Disaster
Janette-Susan Bailey
Part 2. Soil and the US Dust Bowl: American Imagery Converges with the Australian
4. Battlefields of the South-West Pacific: Australian Soil Erosion, Enemies, Graziers, and Traitors in “Dust Bowl” Imagery
Janette-Susan Bailey
5. The Australian Constitution and State Politics: Creeping Deserts and Human Extinction in “Dust Bowl” Warnings of Impending Doom
Janette-Susan Bailey
6. Dust Storms and “the Despair of the Housewife”: War-Time Wind Erosion as “Natural Disaster”
Janette-Susan Bailey
Part 3. Water and “Dust Bowls”: American Imagery Converges with the Australian
7. “Battle of the Rivers,” Battle of the Stories: Dust Bowls, Dams, TVAs, and a Snowy Mountains Scheme
Janette-Susan Bailey
8. Conclusion: “Just a ‘Bloody Duststorm’?”
Janette-Susan Bailey
Keywords: History, US History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Cultural History
- Author(s)
- Bailey, Janette-Susan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
- Page amount
- 22 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137589071
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-58049-8