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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Dust bowl"”.
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"""I Was a Bum Once Myself"": Harry Partch, ""U.S. Highball"", and the Dust Bowl in the American Imagination"
… to tap into the nation's fascination with the Dust Bowl and migrant life. After a brief survey of the few works that currently constitute Partch scholarship, this dissertation contextualizes the search for an American voice in musical composition and the place of the Dust Bowl in the American …
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A transnational environmental idea: reception, interpretation and employment of US Dust Bowl imagery in World War Two and post-war Australia
This thesis explores the ‘dust bowl’ as a transnational idea. Beginning with an analysis of the emergence of dust bowl narratives and imagery in the US, it tracks these ideas and shows how and why they evolved and accumulated new meanings as they were woven through Australian narratives of the …
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"I Don't Approve of That Way of Running a Family": Transient Children, Institutions, and Interventions in California Through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
… families and children during the Depression and Dust Bowl. In particular, it emphasizes the growth of several state bureaucracies during this time, including the Department of Public Health, the Department of Education, and the Youth Authority. It also engages with local nonprofit relief agencies …
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Essays on the development of the American economy
… essay analyzes the impact of the 1930's American Dust Bowl and investigates how much the short-term costs from erosion were mitigated by long-term adjustments. Exploiting new data collected to identify low, medium, and high erosion counties, estimates indicate that the Dust Bowl led to substantial …
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Broken Ground: Plowing and America's Cultural Landscape in the 1930s
… two chapters focus on artistic products of the Dust Bowl that expose problems inherent in American treatment of the land. The third chapter examines Pare Lorentz's 1936 documentary film "The Plow that Broke the Plains," which charts a history of soil exploitation. Alexandre Hogue's "Mother Earth …
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Fragments of a Man: The Fracturing of Time and Mind in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
… regarded authors, widely recognized for his Dust Bowl Trilogy, constituted by the novels, In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath, in particular, brought Steinbeck fame and fortune, and was largely the reason why he was awarded the …
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Technological Change and Agricultural Development
… catastrophe, focusing on the the American Dust Bowl, an environmental crisis that led to widespread soil erosion and production losses on the US Plains during the 1930s. Combining data on county-level erosion, the historical geography of US crop production, and crop-specific technology …
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'It Should've Never Been Broke Out': Understanding Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program in Southwest Kansas and Southeast Colorado
… experiences related to wind erosion and the Dust Bowl, perceived community impacts of CRP, and the cultural and economic history of the region, also influenced how producers make sense of and 'frame' the program. Guaranteed payments to maintain cover incentivize participation, especially for …
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Progressive era influence on West Coast political reform, 1937-1942
… West Coast dams; social justice and responses to Dust Bowl migration. An ideological re-appraisal of the West Coast in the late New Deal is attempted. Firstly, from a Progressive era ideological viewpoint, issues conventionally judged peripheral in the three policy areas are re-conceptualized as …
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Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950
In the mid-1930s, a prominent group of industrialists, politicians, and farmers in the United States rallied around chemurgy, an emergent field of applied chemistry that sought to transform post-World War I agricultural surplus into industrial commodities. Ephemeral but wide-ranging in its scope, …
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Three essays on the relationship between land conservation and economic development
… policies in the Great Plains. The 1930s Dust Bowl compelled the federal government to undertake large soil conservation policies; I evaluate the effects of those policies over fifty years. Results show that the Voluntary Acreage Reduction program had beneficial long-term effects, …
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The impacts of voluntary private lands programs on stream fish diversity in the Kaskaskia River Basin, Illinois
… history, and continue to do so today. After the dust bowl we began to inch our way toward smarter management of our watersheds. This eventually spurred the development of best management practices (BMPs) to combat non-point source pollution. Voluntary private lands programs such as the …
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Soil conservation and the white agrarian environment in Colonial Zimbabwe, c. 1908-1980
This thesis utilizes three theoretical approaches; political ecology, settler culture and community conservation to examine soil conservation and the white agrarian environment in colonial Zimbabwe to evaluate to what extent players in government and the agricultural sector were conscious or …