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Dust Bowl : The Southern Plains in The 1930s by Donald Worster (1982, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195032128

ISBN-139780195032123

eBay Product ID (ePID)52711

Product Key Features

Book TitleDust Bowl : the Southern Plains in the 1930s

Number of Pages228 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEconomic Conditions, United States / General

Publication Year1982

IllustratorYes

GenreBusiness & Economics, History

AuthorDonald Worster

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length6.4 in

Item Width9.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN78-027018

Reviews"Worster's book is the first to pinpoint the results of the mechanization and defiance of nature, and the sources of such practices. Definitely the best introduction to understanding the cultural sources of modern environmental crises."--A.R. Vasavi, Tufts University"Over ten years old, in a field that is rapidly growing and changing and still the best environmental history of 20th century agriculture!"--Mart Stuart, Oregon State Univ."An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study....It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."-- American Historical Review"Superb social history....A gracefully written and fascinating book."--History: Reviews of New Books"Well-written and students respond to it well."--Gilbert W. Gillespie, Cornell University, "Superb social history.... A gracefully written and fascinatingbook."--History: Reviews of New Books, "Worster's book is the first to pinpoint the results of the mechanization and defiance of nature, and the sources of such practices. Definitely the best introduction to understanding the cultural sources of modern environmental crises."--A.R. Vasavi, Tufts University "Over ten years old, in a field that is rapidly growing and changing and still the best environmental history of 20th century agriculture!"--Mart Stuart, Oregon State Univ. "An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study....It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."-- American Historical Review "Superb social history....A gracefully written and fascinating book."-- History: Reviews of New Books "Well-written and students respond to it well."--Gilbert W. Gillespie, Cornell University, "An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study....It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."-- American Historical Review, "An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study.... It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."--American Historical Review, "Superb social history....A gracefully written and fascinating book."--History: Reviews of New Books, "Worster's book is the first to pinpoint the results of the mechanization and defiance of nature, and the sources of such practices. Definitely the best introduction to understanding the cultural sources of modern environmental crises."--A.R. Vasavi, Tufts University, "Worster's book is the first to pinpoint the results of the mechanization and defiance of nature, and the sources of such practices. Definitely the best introduction to understanding the cultural sources of modern environmental crises."--A.R. Vasavi,Tufts University "Over ten years old, in a field that is rapidly growing and changing and still the best environmental history of 20th century agriculture!"--Mart Stuart,Oregon State Univ. "An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study....It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."--American Historical Review "Superb social history....A gracefully written and fascinating book."--History: Reviews of New Books "Well-written and students respond to it well."--Gilbert W. Gillespie,Cornell University, "This is an excellent book, revealing the fundamental tension that haslong existed between economic expansion and the health of the environment.Worster brilliantly draws lessons from his period and region of study and showstheir application to other parts of the world today."--Scott Hamilton Dewey,California State University, Los Angeles, "Worster's book is the first to pinpoint the results of the mechanizationand defiance of nature, and the sources of such practices. Definitely the bestintroduction to understanding the cultural sources of modern environmentalcrises."--A.R. Vasavi, Tufts University, "Over ten years old, in a field that is rapidly growing and changing and still the best environmental history of 20th century agriculture!"--Mart Stuart, Oregon State Univ., "Worster's book is the first to pinpoint the results of the mechanization and defiance of nature, and the sources of such practices. Definitely the best introduction to understanding the cultural sources of modern environmental crises."--A.R. Vasavi, Tufts University "Over ten years old, in a field that is rapidly growing and changing and still the best environmental history of 20th century agriculture!"--Mart Stuart, Oregon State Univ. "An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study....It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."-- American Historical Review "Superb social history....A gracefully written and fascinating book."--History: Reviews of New Books "Well-written and students respond to it well."--Gilbert W. Gillespie, Cornell University, "This is an excellent book, revealing the fundamental tension that has long existed between economic expansion and the health of the environment. Worster brilliantly draws lessons from his period and region of study and shows their application to other parts of the world today."--ScottHamilton Dewey, California State University, Los Angeles

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal978/.032

SynopsisIn 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.

LC Classification NumberHC107.A165