Managing the Mountains

Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-07-05
Mått146 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieYale Agrarian Studies Series
Antal sidor304
FörlagYale University Press
ISBN9780300192568

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“Sara Gregg has written a pathbreaking book in the rapidly growing field of environmental history. Focusing on the Appalachian forests and mountains in Virginia and Vermont, she illustrates how much transformative attention, both public and private, was focused on the health of the landscape and the people who lived in it.”—Alan Brinkley, author of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century and of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression