Dust bowl: depression America to World War Two Australia

This book takes the DustBowl story beyond Depression America to describe the 'dust bowl' concept as atransnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australiannational mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Dealand the US Dust Bowl where massive duststorms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggereda major national and international media event and generated imagery describinga failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a newAmerican Desert. Dust Bowl traces theevolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspiredstories of conservation-mindedness, soilerosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creepingdeserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grandvisions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia's iconic SnowyRiver?that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.