Dust Bowl: Depression America to World War Two Australia

.Chapter One: Ideas: American exceptionalism, social realism, women, deserts, documentary, soil and civilization.-

.Chapter Two: Three Dust Bowl narratives: farmer attitudes, human erosion, women and natural diaster.-

.Chapter Three: Battlefield of the South-West Pacific: soil erosion, enemies, graziers and traitors in Australian 'dust bowl' imagery.-

.-Chapter Four: The Australian constitution and state politics: creeping deserts and human extinction in 'Dust bowl' warnings of impending doom.-

.-Chapter Five: Dust Storms and "the despair of the housewife": war-time wind erosion as 'natural diaster'.-

.Chapter Six: "Battle of the rivers," battle of the stories: 'Dust bowls', dams, TVAs and a Snowy Mountains Scheme.-

.-Conclusion: "Just a 'Bloody Duststorm'?".