2007, ISBN: 9780521617963

Kartoniert, 310 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng The book tells a new story about the New Deal period in U.S. history, the era of the 1930s and 1940s that witnessed a critica… Plus…

Kartoniert, 310 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng The book tells a new story about the New Deal period in U.S. history, the era of the 1930s and 1940s that witnessed a critical expansion of the national government's power to regulate economic activity and to provide a certain measure of social welfare. It argues that policymakers viewed rural poverty as a factor limiting the country's ability to recover from the Great Depression, and it describes how these officials put in place natural resource programs for soil conservation, farm commodity supports, hydropower dams, and rural electrification.This 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.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. Versandkostenfreie Lieferung Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, [PU: Cambridge University Press]<

ISBN: 9780521617963

This 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 Americ… Plus…

This 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. Sarah T. Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. | This Land This Nation by Sarah T. Phillips Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > North American History > United States > Modern P10103, Sarah T. Phillips<

2007, ISBN: 0521617960

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Cambridge Univers… Plus…

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Cambridge University Press]<

2007, ISBN: 9780521617963

Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2007