Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Book Review: it sucked!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
It had totally false and misleading information,and from what i could tell it had been plagorized.Book Review: Excellent History, Excellent Reading
Summary: 5 Stars
This remains one of my favorite history monographs. Worster's argument is that the ecological disaster of the dust bowl had its roots in the economic, political, and environmental assumptions of farmers and politicians. These are not the sturdy frontier farmers who love their land and democracy, more akin to miners of the soil who push it far beyond its limits.Book Review: Thought provoking and insightful
Summary: 5 Stars
A different approach to traditional US history, whilst taking into account the determined and rugged outlook of the southerners and the freak geological conditions of the period, Worster concludes that it was American culture itself that led to the land being over exploited and resulting in the Dust Bowl.Graphic and humorous accounts punctuate an excellent analysis of the factors surrounding the Dust Bowl. Whilst his conclusions will no doubt be controversial, especially in America itself (the book opens with a quote from Marx) it is a valuable and powerful contribution to North American environmental history.
It is a pleasure to read to boot. Well worth a look.