Book ID: CBB798731634

Dust bowls of empire: imperialism, environmental politics, and the injustice of "green" capitalism (2018)

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Hannah Holleman (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: Book Series: Yale agrarian studies series
Physical Details: 231
Language: English

The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the climate change era, and has long served as a warning of the dire consequences of unchecked environmental despoliation. Through innovative research and a fresh theoretical lens, Hannah Holleman reexamines the global socioecological and economic forces of settler colonialism and imperialism precipitating this disaster, explaining critical antecedents to the acceleration of ecological degradation in our time. Holleman draws lessons from this period that point a way forward for environmental politics as we confront the growing global crises of climate change, freshwater scarcity, extreme energy, and soil degradation. (Publisher)

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Review Julie Courtwright (January 2021) Review of "Dust bowls of empire: imperialism, environmental politics, and the injustice of "green" capitalism". Environmental History (pp. 147-151). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alessandra Landi
Tom Philpott
Oge, Margo T.
Giovanni Carrosio
Akos Kokai
David Gissen
Concepts
Environmental history
Environmental degradation
Sustainability
Technology and politics
Agriculture
Imperialism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Ancient
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Europe
Seattle (Washington, U.S.)
Thailand
Myanmar (Burma)
Indian Ocean
Institutions
United States Navy
Tennessee Valley Authority
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