This land, this nation : conservation, rural America, and the New Deal / Sarah T. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Sarah T., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation of natural resources--United States--History--20th century.

Conservation of natural resources.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes; Preface; Introduction; 1 The New Conservation; 2 Poor People, Poor Land; 3 ""The Best New Dealer from Texas""; 4 The Industrial Transition; Conclusion; Epilogue: Exporting the New Deal; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16547-4

1-280-81548-5

0-511-27526-9

9786610815487

0-511-61870-0

0-511-27456-4

0-511-27299-5

0-511-32132-5

0-511-27378-9

OCLC:

772458971