Legacies Of Dust
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Legacies Of Dust Land Use And Labor On The Colorado Plains
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Author : Douglas Sheflin
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Legacies Of Dust Land Use And Labor On The Colorado Plains written by Douglas Sheflin and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with History categories.
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 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.
Monuments Of Dust
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Author : William George Burgess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Monuments Of Dust written by William George Burgess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Shadows And Dust Iii Legacies
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Author : Kevin McKinley
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-06-06
Shadows And Dust Iii Legacies written by Kevin McKinley and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-06 with History categories.
The articles contained in this book are a compilation of stories from the author's newspaper column All things southern published in the last ten years. The articles relate the history and genealogy of the southwest Alabama and northwest Florida regions.
The Dust Bowl The History And Legacy Of The Most Notorious Drought In American History
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-12
The Dust Bowl The History And Legacy Of The Most Notorious Drought In American History written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-12 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Dust Bowl and dust storms by farmers, wives, and children *Includes a bibliography for further reading "People caught in their own yards grope for the doorstep. Cars come to a standstill, for no light in the world can penetrate that swirling murk.... The nightmare is deepest during the storms. But on the occasional bright day and the usual gray day we cannot shake from it. We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions." - Avis D. Carlson "How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him - he has known a fear beyond every other." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath It is almost impossible to imagine today, but in the late 19th century and early 20th century, there were places where land was cheaper than food and more plentiful than water. During the homesteading period of the 1860s-1880s, the government typically offered land grants of 160 acres to any farmer who could get it cultivated within a certain amount of time. With that much land to make productive and a limited number of years to get it cleared and planted, men would do whatever it took to get their crops in. Of course, these farmers, trying to quickly carve working farms, were more concerned with speed than with the impact on the ground itself. Surviving each year itself was enough work; the future would have to worry about itself. While farmers were planting crops, the seeds were also being sown for a natural disaster once a severe drought hit the prairie land in the 1930s. Due to a lack of proper dryland farming methods, wind erosion and the drought combined to create horrific dust storms that devastated wide swathes of Great Plains and even reached cities on the East Coast like New York City and Washington, D.C. It's estimated that the dust storms affected about 100 million acres during the decade, uprooting not just soil but tens of thousands of people as their farms and families suffered. With farms failing across vast portions of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico Colorado and Kansas, those who could no longer support themselves became migrants, moving to other states like California, but the country was still in the throes of the Great Depression. As a result, there was a unique class of suffering that was documented not only in pictures but in graphically realistic novels like John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Pictures of abandoned farms that looked like post-apocalyptic ghost towns helped drive the crisis home across the country, to the extent that the Dust Bowl is still well-known 80 years later. The Dust Bowl chronicles one of America's "Dirty Thirties," an era in which ecological disasters brought economic ruin and permanently affected millions across the country. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Dust Bowl like never before, in no time at all.
The Dust Of Ages
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Author : Justin Richards
language : en
Publisher: BBC Children's Books
Release Date : 2009
The Dust Of Ages written by Justin Richards and has been published by BBC Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Children's adventure stories categories.
It is a few years into our future, and there are bases on the Moon. A recent survey has shown something unusual, an unknown power source. When a tall, skinny spiky-haired stranger turns up and announces he's from the Bureau of Alien Technology doing a spot check, the survey team know they've found something special. But is this special power a source of blessing or a curse? This amazing ten-book series follows the Doctor on his exciting journey to discover the origins of the so-called Eternity Crystal and the powerful artisans who have created it - the Darksmiths.
Cold War Legacies
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Author : John Beck
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-16
Cold War Legacies written by John Beck and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-16 with Philosophy categories.
From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War. Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.
North Jersey Legacies
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Author : Gordon Bond
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-18
North Jersey Legacies written by Gordon Bond and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-18 with History categories.
Did you know that the Dust Bowl hit New Jersey? Twice? How about that a mysterious experiment in "subliminal advertising" was conducted at a Fort Lee, New Jersey movie theater? Or that railroad communication was advanced on a northwest New Jersey railroad line? Or that America first heard about the Russians launch of Sputnik 2 (with a dog onboard) thanks to a Ukrainian refugee in Perth Amboy, New Jersey? Or that prisons could buy a custom electric chair from a Trenton, New Jersey electrician? Or that aviation matured into an industry thanks to Newark Airport? This book is a collection of articles from www.GardenStateLegacy.com, an online quarterly magazine devoted to New Jersey history that the author began in 2008. The Garden State features to some degree even as a footnote in larger historical stories far more often than one might think. It could just be a matter of someone from the state going on to something of historic importance somewhere else; or that by dumb luck something just happened to occur within its borders. New Jersey may be a footnote in these tangential tales, but they are the kind of unexpected connections that makes exploring New Jersey's history so delightful.
Children Of The Dust
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Author : Anderson McCourt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Children Of The Dust written by Anderson McCourt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Children categories.
Children of the dust, children of the never-never... or the never-were... In Vietnam, ancestors are everything: as an old Vietnamese saying goes, a son without a father is a river without a source. Children of the dust - dua bui - are the children fathered and left behind by American soldiers in Vietnam. They are the 'dust of life', children of the enemy, treated with contempt and pushed to the very edge of Vietnamese society. Tran lives in Ho Chi Minh city and works in an international hotel, serving drinks to westerners keen to cash in on the 'new Vietnam'. As he mixes cocktails and endures the brutishness of many of the hotel's guests, he tries not to think about his father. Cruikshank is one of those westerners, a man unable to forget Vietnam: unable to forget the war, haunted by a lost love and a flagging career. When an anonymous package arrives from Hanoi, Tran and Cruikshank are joined together in a journey of self-discovery and danger that will unravel much more than they ever expected. Through the deadly minefields of brutal post-war operations and the heartbreak of lost opportunity comes a deeply human story that delivers truths and legacies of a war long past - truths and legacies that echo through the years into the present. This is a gripping and moving story of people separated by war and its consequences: consequences which reach down the decades and cannot be ignored.
Rwanda Where Souls Turn To Dust
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Author : Patrick Habamenshi Um'Khonde
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009
Rwanda Where Souls Turn To Dust written by Patrick Habamenshi Um'Khonde and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author, Um'Khonde Patrick Habamenshi, was appointed Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda in October 2003, two days after his thirty-fifth birthday. It started as a dream but rapidly became a nightmare marked by constant threats, insults, and unfounded accusations. He resigned in May 2005 and sought refuge in the Canadian Embassy in Kigali. The following year was a slow downward spiral to the same hell that decimated Rwanda in 1994, a hell of injustice and senseless persecution. The experience left him broken beyond words. He was left with the demons and ghosts of his broken country and with tortured experiences that would surely destroy him if he succumbed to them. Rwanda, Where Souls Turn to Dust is the remarkable story of his healing path to rebuilding his mind, body and spirit. He had to move away from the negative things that had been dominating his life, the loss of his loved ones, and the loss of his previous dreams. He rebuilt his life from the ashes of his old life in Rwanda, a life free of hatred, free of prejudice, and free of fears.
The Blood That Drives Us
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Author : M. N. Forgy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-22
The Blood That Drives Us written by M. N. Forgy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with categories.
Zane has learned everything he knows from his father, the most dangerous biker of The Devil's Dust MC. He devours the darkness with a cocky grin and no f**** to give. His immoral obsessions barely keep him content in a life of chaos and havoc until he finds himself craving more. Addie doesn't need the risk that comes with Zane... that is until her perfectly orchestrated life takes a sudden turn and she's left with nowhere else to go. She's sunshine and charities, he's bullets and ecstasy. Will he step out of his hell and into her bed knowing it'll mean that he's dragging her into the depths of his criminal world?