8 edition of The future of the Southern Plains found in the catalog.
Published
2003
by University of Oklahoma Press in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University in Norman
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | edited by Sherry L. Smith. |
| Genre | Congresses. |
| Contributions | Smith, Sherry Lynn. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | F786 .F88 2003 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xii, 275 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 275 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3685299M |
| ISBN 10 | 0806135530 |
| LC Control Number | 2003047399 |
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(The bright robin’s-egg blue indicates temperatures in the low to mids). In the July map, the deep raspberry color, used for temperatures near 90°F, is considerably more widespread across the Southern Plains of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas; the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast; and the valleys of the Great Basin. The Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that, throughout the s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly.
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In The Future of the Southern Plains, scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience.
They match intellectual sophistication with deep affection for a place defined primarily as western Texas 4/5(1). About this Item: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Hardcover.
Condition: New. pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. New book. AMERICAN SOUTHWEST. In The Future of The future of the Southern Plains book Southern Plains, scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future.
Donald Worster first wrote this book in based on his research and interviews about the Dust Bowl era in the Southern Plains. This book is for my research paper on the topic of the Dust Bowl and it gives a very powerful overview presentation of the history, sociology, psychology, and ecology of the region/5.
Get this from a library. The future of the Southern Plains. [Sherry L Smith;] -- "In The Future of the Southern Plains scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future. The contributors, some of them.
In The Future of the Southern Plains, scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future.
The contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience. The Future of the Southern Plains is a collection of essays that evolved from a symposium at Southern Methodist University in The text's primary concern is how oil and water depletion in the Southern Plains affects the economy, autonomy, and aesthetics of the : Ken Rainwater.
In The Future of the Southern Plains, scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience.
They match intellectual sophistication with deep affection for a place defined primarily as western Texas. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet ( pages), ISBN is a ( in USA) non-fiction book by author Mark Lynas about global book looks and attempts to summarize results from scientific papers on climate changeAuthor: Mark Lynas.
The Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT) was founded in with the goal of creating a network of prairie wildlife refuges. We’ve been at it ever since. In the last several years, SPLT has dramatically increased our pace of land acquisition because more refuge is needed to ensure the future of the native animals and plants that make the.
BOOK REVIEWS The Future of the Southern Plains. Edited by Sherry. Smith. Norman: University of Ok la homa Press, xii + pp. Photographs. The year isand yet another black blizzard screams across the Southern Plains.
A lonely farmhouse stands in its path. Pushed onward by sixty miles-per-hour winds, the dark cloud surges forward; an Oklahoma farmer ducks inside the house just before he is overtaken by the immense, billowing black cloud of choking dust/5. “It is an unreliable, intractable place, wildly oscillating around an almost meaningless mean,” University of Kansas historian Donald Worster wrote in Author: Sarah Zielinski.
In the mid s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between and tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.
Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster 5/5(3). In the mid s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between and tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as humantwenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster Cited by: The Future of the Southern Plains.
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And although it is not exactly a “how-to” book, WritingNaturally will likely accom plish that goal and should become an indispensable resource for both readers and writers of the genre. The Future of the Southern Plains. Sherry L. Smith. N orm an: U n iversity o f O klah om a Press, pages, $Author: Robert Murray Davis.
Books similar to Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the s Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the s. by Donald Worster. avg. rating Ratings. This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in.
THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the 'Great Plow-Up,' followed by a decade-long drought during the s. Southern Power builds the future of energy by investing in clean energy solutions for the customers we serve.
A subsidiary of Southern Company, we are a leading U.S. wholesale energy provider meeting the electricity needs of municipalities, electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and commercial and industrial customers. 'Homesteading the Plains' The Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Press released Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History in September The book, by Richard Edwards, Jacob K.
Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo, reexamines the current consensus interpretation by historians of homesteading’s role in the settling of the American West. Abstract. On the coasts Americans refer to the Great Plains, with more than a hint of contempt, as flyover g out the window of a jet or an air-conditioned auto, it seems at first view to be vast, flat, and mostly by: 3.Three new cookbooks, Sean Brock’s “South,” Rob Newton’s “Seeking the South,” and Toni Tipton-Martin’s “Jubilee,” tackle the roots of Southern cooking and its modern : Max Watman.“Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Saving the Plains,” in The Past and Future of the Southern High Plains, Sherry Smith, ed.
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