Dust Bowl Depression America to World War Two Australia 1st Edition by Janette Susan Bailey ISBN 9781137580498 1137580496

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ISBN 10: 1137580496

ISBN 13: 9781137580498

Author: Janette-Susan Bailey

 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.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: The World Is a Dust Bowl

2. Ideas: American Exceptionalism, Social Realism, Women, Deserts, Documentary, Soil, and Civilization

3. Three Dust Bowl Narratives: Farmer Attitudes, Human Erosion, Women, and Natural Disaster

4. Battlefields of the South-West Pacific: Australian Soil Erosion, Enemies, Graziers, and Traitors in “Dust Bowl” Imagery

5. The Australian Constitution and State Politics: Creeping Deserts and Human Extinction in “Dust Bowl” Warnings of Impending Doom

6. Dust Storms and “the Despair of the Housewife”: War-Time Wind Erosion as “Natural Disaster”

7. “Battle of the Rivers,” Battle of the Stories: Dust Bowls, Dams, TVAs, and a Snowy Mountains Scheme

8. Conclusion: “Just a ‘Bloody Duststorm’?”

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