Cronon takes a very poetic spin to his analysis on Bonnifield and Worster. Cronon uses his ideal storytelling form of history to explain Bonnifield\u2019s position on natural disaster in the dust bowl, and Worster\u2019s position on man made disaster. It seems like cronon has a very different view of worster\u2019s work than Koppes\u2019 writings. Koppes seemed to think Worster was suggesting the people were to blame for the dust bowl. Cronon puts it as \u201cThe story of the Dust Bowl is less about the failures of nature than about the failures of human beings to accommodate themselves to nature. A long series of willful human misunderstandings and assaults led finally to a collapse whose origins were mainly cultural.\u201d I hate to use such a long quote, but it just seems so contradictory between the two authors. I felt like Cronon had the far better interpretation of Worster, but his writing seemed to agree more with Bonnifield\u2019s work.\u00a0 Koppes disagreed with Bonnifield, but seemed to have the lacking interpretation of Worster\u2019s work. It was a strange to read. Cronon doesn\u2019t stay on their work very long though, he moves on to the poetic descriptions. The poetic description shows what he meant earlier on about culture. He explains his historiography with symbolism excellently, and solidifies it with the description of Native distress and loss of nature. Jessica also has an interpretation using Cunfer\u2019s writing \u201cCunfer argues that Worster\u2019s research on the dust bowl was more focused on the two case studies on two small communities rather than the whole region. He discusses how the analysis of the whole region is more beneficial to understand the dust storms and the droughts.\u201d http:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/archives\/810 Cronon\u2019s conclusion really impressed me though, because whether intentional or not he seems to belittle the non-fiction that isn\u2019t historically reviewed and confirmed. At the library I\u2019ll speak to people about being a history major in College and they\u2019ll bring up 1421: The Year China Discovered America. I felt like this is the kind of work that Cronon hints at, although I know that his final intention is to critique potential Natural history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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