Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience
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Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience by John Wunder
Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades
"This book.. offers readers an intimate understanding of natural, economic, and political facets of one of the greatest environmental disasters to befall the United States." - Great Plains Research
"The journalism included in this volume is of a very high quality, politically charged and historically rich. A useful resource for students of American history."
- Kirkus Reviews"Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience offers a compelling selection of eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, and contemporary magazine articles. These documents put words to the faces and make the past live again." - James P. Ronda, author of Lewis and Clark Among the Indians
"The journalism included in this volume is of a very high quality, politically charged and historically rich. A useful resource for students of American history."
- Kirkus Reviews"Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience offers a compelling selection of eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, and contemporary magazine articles. These documents put words to the faces and make the past live again." - James P. Ronda, author of Lewis and Clark Among the Indians
John R. Wunder, professor of history and journalism at the University of Nebraska, is a leading scholar of the American West and the American legal system. He is the author of five books and the editor of the multivolume Native Americans and the Law: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on American Indian rights, Freedoms, and Sovereignty as well as series editor for TTUP s Plains Histories. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.Kurt E. Kinbacher earned his PhD in history at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (2006), where he was a postdoctoral researcher. He is a history instructor at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane, Washington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870816482 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870816489 |
| Titel | Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience |
| Autor | John Wunder |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | University Press of Colorado |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2001-09-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 445 |
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