Description: Dirty Thirties is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression, and it is generally assumed that prior to this period healthier, normal conditions prevailed. In Happyland, Curtis McManus contends that the ""Dirty Thirties"" actually began much earlier and were connected only peripherally to the Depression itself. McManus has mined the rarely consulted records of Rural Municipalities in Saskatchewan, as well as government documents, ministerial correspondence, local community histories, newspapers, and publications of relevant government departments, to tell a story of a quarter-century of stubborn persistence but also of absurdity, despair, social dislocation, moral corrosion, and inconsistent and often inept government policy. Thanks to McManus's rare and welcome blend of sound scholarship and living breathing prose, it is a gripping and evocative story as well.
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EAN: 9781552385241
UPC: 9781552385241
ISBN: 9781552385241
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Book Title: Happyland: A History of the ""Dirty Thirties"" in
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Happyland: a History of the Dirty Thirties in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937
Language: English
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Item Height: 228 mm
Subject: Economics, History
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 482 g
Author: Curtis Mcmanus
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
