Dust Bowl
The Southern Plains in the 1930s
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2004
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25th Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517488-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517488-5 (ISBN)
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 industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
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 industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and the author of A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell.
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 Grow
Epilogue: On a Thin Edge
Afterword
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | numerous halftones & maps |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 449 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-517488-7 / 0195174887 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-517488-5 / 9780195174885 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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