{"product_id":"9781137580498","title":"Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History: Depression America to World War Two Australia","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in World Environmental History: Depression America to World War Two Australia\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBailey, Janette-Susan\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eDust Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eDust Bowl \u003c\/i\u003etraces 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-10-17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137580498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-58907-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 353\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752463331468,"sku":"9781137580498","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137580498.jpg?v=1775925018","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137580498","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}