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

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gregg, Sara M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
1900-1999
Regional planning > Appalachian Region > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
New Deal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
SCIENCE > General.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Economic history
Regional planning
Appalachian Region > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Appalachian Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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