Managing the mountains : land use planning, the New Deal, and the creation of a federal landscape in Appalachia / Sara M. Gregg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregg, Sara M.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies.

Yale agrarian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regional planning--Appalachian Region--History--20th century.

Regional planning.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Appalachian Region--Economic conditions--20th century.

Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural policy. Sara M. Gregg explores the redevelopment of the Appalachian Mountains from the 1910's through the 1930's, finding in this region a changing paradigm of land use planning that laid the groundwork for the national New Deal. Through an intensive analysis of federal planning in Virginia and Vermont, Gregg contextualizes the expansion of the federal government through land use planning and highlights the deep intellectual roots of federal conservation policy.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction Farms and Forests: An Appalachian Portrait

Chapter One. A Harvest of Scarcity: Self-Sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Chapter Two. Customs in Common: Community And Agriculture In The Green Mountains

Chapter Three. Academics and Partisans: Federal Land Use Planning, 1900- 1933

Chapter Four. Designing the Shenandoah National Park

Chapter Five. Cultivating the Vermont Forest

Chapter Six. Reforming Submarginal Lands, 1933-1938

Epilogue: Cellarholes and Wilderness: The Return of the Appalachian Forest

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613601209

9781280571602

1280571608

9780300142204

030014220X

OCLC:

794004249