Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Jess

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300223056 ISBN 13 : 9780300223057

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti-New Dealers killed the successful program the next year. This book reexamines the era's agricultural policy and tells the neglected story of the New Deal agrarian leaders and their visionary ideas about land, democratization, and progressive social change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jess Gilbert is professor emeritus, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300223056
• ISBN 13: 9780300223057
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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