| #5070275 in Books | Color: Tan | 2001-05-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x.82 x6.34l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 200 pages||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| More suitable for an English or liberal arts person|By Edward Terry|I was unable to comprehend what the author was trying to communicate, which is a reflection on me, not the author. I'm very left-brained, an engineer and my idea of fun is reading scientific research articles. The author demonstrated an amazing vocabulary but I was unable to process the information he was attem|From Library Journal|Lookingbill (history, Columbia Coll.) presents a synthesis of firsthand accounts of the Dust Bowl crisis in the 1930s from books, newspapers, photographs, films, and popular songs. Beginning with "conquest" of the land, the six chapters trac
Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the “dirty thirties” unearthed anxieties buried deep in America's ecological imagination. Moreover, the images of a landscape of fear remain embedded in the national consciousness today. In vivid form, the aesthetic of suffering captured in Dorothea Lange's photographs and Woody Guthrie's folk songs created the myths and memories of the Depression gene...
You easily download any file type for your device.Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941 | Brad Lookingbill. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
