- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; 25 edition (16 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195174887
- ISBN-13: 978-0195174885
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.3 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study.... It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers."--American Historical Review
"A gracefully written and fascinating book."--History
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Thought provoking and insightful,
By Karic31 "karic31" (Edinburgh, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)
A different approach to traditional US history, whilst taking into account the determined and rugged outlook of the southerners and the freak geological conditions of the period, Worster concludes that it was American culture itself that led to the land being over exploited and resulting in the Dust Bowl.Graphic and humorous accounts punctuate an excellent analysis of the factors surrounding the Dust Bowl. Whilst his conclusions will no doubt be controversial, especially in America itself (the book opens with a quote from Marx) it is a valuable and powerful contribution to North American environmental history. It is a pleasure to read to boot. Well worth a look.
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Excellent History, Excellent Reading,
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This review is from: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)
This remains one of my favorite history monographs. Worster's argument is that the ecological disaster of the dust bowl had its roots in the economic, political, and environmental assumptions of farmers and politicians. These are not the sturdy frontier farmers who love their land and democracy, more akin to miners of the soil who push it far beyond its limits.
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it sucked!!!,
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This review is from: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)
It had totally false and misleading information,and from what i could tell it had been plagorized.
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