Tomorrow a New World : The New Deal Community Program /

During the New Deal, three governmental agencies planned, constructed, and managed about a hundred small communities of various types in all parts of the country, hopefully laying the foundation for a new world of tomorrow--a planned world of co-operation and economic security.Mr. Conkin traces the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conkin, Paul K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
United States. > Farm Security Administration.
United States. > Farm Security Administration
Rural development > United States.
Social change.
Développement rural > États-Unis.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Rural development
Social change
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Of Men And Their Ideas
  • I. The Land Our Refuge and Our Strength
  • II. Bringing the Town to the Country
  • III. Bringing the Country to the Town
  • IV. From Acorn to Oak
  • Part Two: Of Bureaus And Bureaucrats
  • V. The Subsistence Homesteads Program
  • VI. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration Communities
  • VII. America Resettled
  • VIII. The Community As A Locale For A New Society
  • IX. The Old Society Reasserts Its Claims
  • Part Three: Of Individual Communities
  • X. Arthurdale An Experimental Community
  • XI. Jersey Homesteads A Triple Co-operative
  • XII. Penderlea Homesteads Something Less than a Rural Paradise
  • XIII. Granger Homesteads An Escape from Modernity
  • XIV. The Greenbelt Towns
  • In Retrospect
  • Appendix
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Index

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