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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Donald Worster (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Kansas)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Edition: 25th Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9780195174885ISBN 10: 0195174887 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 16 September 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One A Darkling Plain 1.: The Black Blizzards Roll In 2.: If It Rains 3.: Okies and Exodusters Part Two Prelude to Dust 4.: What Holds the Earth Together 5.: Sodbusting Part Three Cimarron County, Oklahoma 6.: Frontier in Ruins 7.: When the Cattle Ate Tumbleweeds 8.: Hard Times in the Panhandle Part Four Haskell County, Kansas 9.: Unsettled Ground 10.: The Wheat Farmer and the Welfare State 11.: A Sense of Place Part Five A New Deal for the Land 12.: Facing up to Limits 13.: Learning from Nature 14.: Make Two Blades of Grass Grow Epilogue: On a Thin Edge AfterwordReviewsAn exciting, provocative, and stimulating study.... It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers. --American Historical Review<br> A gracefully written and fascinating book. --History<br> Author InformationDonald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and the author of A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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