Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, Paperback - Donald Worster

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

Reducere. In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outco...

Reducere. Chronology of Classic Horror Films: the 1930s is an affectionate, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative re-examination of virtually every American ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1900, the Mississippi legislature appropriated funds to purchase approximately 4, 000 acres of farmland in Sunflower County, the hear...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexica...

Reducere. Based on a true story, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl is an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when ...

Reducere. Where you come from isn't who you are Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 193...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Robert W. BerryIllustration(s): 3col.116mono.Number of pages: 52Collection: Classic MarquesPublication date: ...

* ``A complete visual package.`` --Booklist, starred review On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions ...

Reducere. Set in the 1930s Oklahoma, this American Horse Tale is the story of a young girl who makes the difficult decision to leave her family and move to C...

This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and a...

Reducere. If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scien...

Reducere. The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diari...

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is disco...

Reducere. The 1930s Dust Bowl was the greatest ecological tragedy in the United States. Through a combination of drought and fierce winds, America's Great Pl...

Reducere. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, ...

Reducere. In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James W. Lish Every autumn, thousands of migrating Red-tailed Hawks arrive on the southern Great Plains to spend the winter...

Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressAuthor(s): Stan HoigIllustration(s): 62 black & white illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 352Publication d...

Reducere. DescriptionWith Universal's release of Dracula on Valentine's Day 1931, the horror film as we know it was born. The following decade saw first a ho...

Reducere. When the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the...

Reducere. Spur Awards"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, " John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me...

From AC to Wolseley, this is the illustrated encyclopaedia of every make of British, European and American car sold in Britain during the 1930s.Pub...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

Reducere. It is 1933. As a beat-up truck travels down a road away from Arkansas, seven-year-old Molly May Dowden can only hope a better future awaits her par...

Reducere. When the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the...

Reducere. Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices ...

Reducere. ``A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend...

Reducere. Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it...

Reducere. History of automobile racing on dirt tracks in the southern United States. Focuses on the first Dirt Cars of the late 1950's, the "late models, " t...

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Religion and Spirituality. Buddhism. Translated by Red Pine. Empty Bowl is proud to present Re...

Reducere. Trees can be identified through features such as leaves, bark, buds, and twigs. In the spring and summer months, leaf morphology is the most common...

Reducere. Dust II Onyx: A Melanated Tarot, is a deck created by multimedia artist Courtney Alexander. The cards feature 78 mixed media collage paintings acce...

Reducere. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordabl...

Reducere. Can an ordinary life leave an extraordinary legacy? In 1977, when nineteen-year-old Allison Middleton receives a proposal of marriage from Westley ...

Reducere. It is dark and dreary, and you are all alone. Alone with your subconscious. The rain keeps falling, and you can't help but feel a void in your soul...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021* 'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a l...

The first in-depth examination of Matisse's work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artistPublisher:...