Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains - Couverture rigide

Sheflin, Douglas

 
9780803285538: Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains
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ISBN 10 : 0803285531 ISBN 13 : 9780803285538
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2019

Synopsis

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2020 Center for the Study of the American West (CSAW) Award for Outstanding Western Book Finalist

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst ecological disaster in American history. When the rains stopped and the land dried up, farmers and agricultural laborers on the southeastern Colorado plains were forced to adapt to new realities. The severity of the drought coupled with the economic devastation of the Great Depression compelled farmers and government officials to combine their efforts to achieve one primary goal: keep farmers farming on the Colorado plains.

In Legacies of Dust Douglas Sheflin offers an innovative and provocative look at how a natural disaster can dramatically influence every facet of human life. Focusing on the period from 1929 to 1962, Sheflin presents the disaster in a new light by evaluating its impact on both agricultural production and the people who fueled it, demonstrating how the Dust Bowl fractured Colorado's established system of agricultural labor. Federal support, combined with local initiative, instituted a broad conservation regime that facilitated production and helped thousands of farmers sustain themselves during the difficult 1930s and again during the drought of the 1950s. Drawing from western, environmental, transnational, and labor history, Sheflin investigates how the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl and its complex consequences transformed the southeastern Colorado agricultural economy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Sheflin is an instructor of history at Colorado State University.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803285531
ISBN 13 
9780803285538
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
426
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781496224996: Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains

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ISBN 10 :  149622499X ISBN 13 :  9781496224996
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2021
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