Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worster, Donald, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.

Dust storms--Southwestern States.

Dust storms.

Dust storms--Great Plains.

Agriculture--Southwestern States--History.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Great Plains--History.

Southwestern States--History--20th century.

Southwestern States.

Great Plains--History--20th century.

Great Plains.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Edition:

25th ed.

Other Title:

Southern Plains in the 1930s

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues--including the American livestock i

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Part One A Darkling Plain; 1. The Black Blizzards Roll In; 2. If It Rains; 3. Okies and Exodusters; Part Two Prelude to Dust; 4. What Holds the Earth Together; 5. Sodbusting; Part Three Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 6. Frontier in Ruins; 7. When the Cattle Ate Tumbleweeds; 8. Hard Times in the Panhandle; Part Four Haskell County, Kansas; 9. Unsettled Ground; 10. The Wheat Farmer and the Welfare State; 11. A Sense of Place; Part Five A New Deal for the Land; 12. Facing up to Limits; 13. Learning from Nature

14. Make Two Blades of Grass GrowEpilogue: On a Thin Edge; Afterword; Notes; Index

Notes:

Originally published : 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-283) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780195174892

0195174895

9780199758692

0199758697

OCLC:

727646722

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00703 hdl