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This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal - Couverture souple

Phillips, Sarah

 
9780521617963: This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521617960 ISBN 13 : 9780521617963
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This 2007 book combines political with environmental history to present conservation policy as a critical arm of New Deal reform, one that embodied the promises and limits of midcentury American liberalism. It interprets the natural resource programs of the 1930s and 1940s as a set of federal strategies aimed at rehabilitating the economies of agricultural areas. The New Dealers believed that the country as a whole would remain mired in depression as long as its farmers remained poorer than its urban residents, and these politicians and policymakers set out to rebuild rural life and raise rural incomes with measures tied directly to conservation objectives - land retirement, soil restoration, flood control, and affordable electricity for homes and industries. In building new constituencies for the environmental initiatives, resource administrators and their liberal allies established the political justification for an enlarged federal government and created the institutions that shaped the contemporary rural landscape.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah T. Phillips is an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University who specializes in twentieth-century American political and environmental history. Her publications include articles in Environmental History and Agricultural History, and anthology chapters on transatlantic agrarian history and on the Franklin Roosevelt presidency. Her dissertation, on which this book is based, won the 2003 Gilbert C. Fite award from the Agricultural History Society.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521617960
ISBN 13 
9780521617963
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
310
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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