| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series |
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Yale agrarian studies
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| Contents |
Introduction: Farms and forests: an Appalachian portrait -- 1: Origins -- A harvest of scarcity: self-sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- Customs in common: community and agriculture in the Green Mountains -- Academics and partisans: federal land use planning, 1900-1933 -- 2: Projects -- Designing the Shenandoah National Park -- Cultivating the Vermont forest -- Reforming submarginal lands, 1933-1938 -- Epilogue: cellarholes and wilderness: the returns of the Appalachian forest |
| 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 1910s through the 1930s, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Regional planning -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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New Deal.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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SCIENCE -- General.
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New Deal, 1933-1939
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Economic history
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Regional planning
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| SUBJECT |
Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Appalachian Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010929597 |
| ISBN |
9780300142204 |
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030014220X |
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