Dust Bowl

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<p>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.<i>Dust Bowl</i> 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.<i>Dust Bowl</i>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 Australias iconic Snowy Riverthat vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.</p>

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<p>Janette-Susan Bailey holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia and has a combined Honors degree in Film, Theatre and Performance Studies / Environmental Studies. She has a background in environmental performance writing and has been nationally and internationally recognized for her cross disciplinary approaches to historical research. She has published in international journals including <i>Environment and History</i>.</p>

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