Publication:

Dust Storms, Grasshoppers, Race, Gender and War – 1930-1939 (The Northwestern Miller)

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    Authors & editors

    Rose, Starlina [Author]

    Publisher The Mills Archive Trust
    Year of publication 2023
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    Medium Book
    Edition1
    SeriesMills Archive Research Publications
    No. in series16
    Topics

    Arts, culture and heritage > Social and economic history
    Arts, culture and heritage > The role of women

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    Scope & contentThe period from the Wall Street Crash until the outbreak of the Second World War was a momentous time in the shaping of America.

    The journal provides a contemporary and detailed account of the impact on the milling industry of the Crash, the ensuing depression and the cataclysmic drought that followed.

    It also illuminates a challenging and humbling narrative on prevalent social aspects such as racism and prejudice against women. All are covered in Rose’s account together with some intriguing details on the industry’s views of communist and fascist regimes in Europe at that time.

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    Accession no. 230530

    • Shelf location: A045-16

    Accession no. 230606

    • Shelf location: A050-ROS
    • Donor: The author
    • Notes: Signed by Starlina for the Mills Archive Trust

    Divisions within this publication

    • 1: Foreword
    • 2: 1.   Introduction
    • 3: 1.1.  The Archive
    • 4: 1.2.  The Northwestern Miller
    • 5: 1.3.  The Project
    • 6: 2.   The Great Depression in the Northwestern Miller, 1930-1939
    • 7: 2.1.  Economic Outlook
    • 8: 2.2.  Biblical Weather Events of the 1930s: ‘Man Proposes, God Disposes’
    • 9: 2.3.  Dust storms
    • 10: 2.4.  Floods
    • 11: 3.   Women in the Northwestern Miller 1930-39
    • 12: 3.1.  Women in Power
    • 13: 4.   Race in the Northwestern Miller
    • 14: 4.1.  ‘Grist of Grim’
    • 15: 4.2.  Grim Reality
    • 16: 4.3.  Sterling’s Politics
    • 17: 4.4.  Racism in business
    • 18: 4.5.  Old Dad Fetchit’s columns
    • 19: 4.6.  Eating around the Issue: other casual racism and hypocrisy
    • 20: 4.7.  Race Suicide
    • 21: 5.   Grain Diplomacy in the Northwestern Miller
    • 22: 5.1.  The United States, Russia and Germany
    • 23: 5.2.  The Northwestern Miller - Views on Domestic Policy
    • 24: 5.3.  The Northwestern Miller and Bias
    • 25: 5.4.  Russia
    • 26: 5.5.  Germany, Britain, America towards WWII
    • 27: 5.6.  War: WWII in the long shadow of WWI
    • 28: 6.   Other research topics in the Northwestern Miller: 1930-1939
    • 29: 7.   Conclusion

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