Happyland: a history of the “dirty thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937

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dc.contributor.authorMcManus, Curtis R.eng
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-06T20:04:55Z
dc.date.available2011-07-06T20:04:55Z
dc.date.issued2011eng
dc.descriptionSeries: Africa, missing voices series (Online); 5eng
dc.description.abstract"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 McManuss rare and welcome blend of sound scholarship and living breathing prose, it is a gripping and evocative story as well.en_US
dc.description.refereedYeseng
dc.identifier.citationMcManus, Curtis R., "Happyland: a history of the “dirty thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937". Series: The West series 5. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2011.eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34578
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-455238-574-6eng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/48647eng
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Presseng
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/eng
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/*
dc.subjectSaskatchewan—History—1905-1945eng
dc.subjectDepressions—1929—Saskatchewaneng
dc.titleHappyland: a history of the “dirty thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937eng
dc.typebook
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