"Crazy Quilt Farming on Round Land": The Great Depression, the Soil Conservation Service, and the Politics of Landscape Change on the Great Plains during the New Deal Era
This article examines the interrelationship between environmental and political change on the Great Plains during the Great Depression. It illustrates how ecological change initiated in one farming community's fields, first by the Great Depression and then by the New Deal's Soil Conservati...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Western Historical Quarterly. - Western Historical Quarterly. - 31(2000), 3, Seite 319-339 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Western Historical Quarterly |
| Schlagworte: | Business Biological sciences History Physical sciences Arts |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines the interrelationship between environmental and political change on the Great Plains during the Great Depression. It illustrates how ecological change initiated in one farming community's fields, first by the Great Depression and then by the New Deal's Soil Conservation Service, had economic, social, and political influence beyond the farmers' fencerows, and ultimately reoriented local citizens toward the federal government. |
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| ISSN: | 19398603 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/969963 |