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Donald Worster is Jack E. Meyerhoff Professor of American Environmental Studies and chairman of the graduate program in American History at Brandeis University. His books includeDust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (winner of the Bancroft prize in history);Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas; andRivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. A version of this essay has been published inThe Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy.
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Worster, D. A sense of soil: Agricultural conservation and American culture. Agric Hum Values 2, 28–35 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530675
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