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Sarah T. Phillips - This Land, This Nation, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

This Land, This Nation

Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

Av Sarah T. Phillips

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-03-05
  • Mått: 161 x 237 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 539 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 302
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521852708
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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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"Sarah Phillips has provided easily the best environmental history of the New Deal that we have. Her wide-ranging and authoritative account of all aspects of New Deal conservation policy firmly places those policies in the context of the New Dealers' hard-headed attempts to tackle the problem of rural poverty. She brilliantly describes the consequences and tensions inherent in their efforts to keep farmers on the land and their ultimate acceptance of an urban, industrial, solution to the problems of the nation's poorest farmers." -A.J. Badger, University of Cambridge

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