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Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal /

"Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm producti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilbert, Jess Carr (Author)
Other Authors: Kirkendall, Richard Stewart, 1928- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Richard S. Kirkendall
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The agrarian intellectuals' vision : the intended New Deal as a planning democracy
  • 3. Growing agrarian reformers in the Midwest : a collective biography
  • 4. Modernizing eastern urban liberals : a comparison with the other progressive group in agriculture
  • 5. Struggling toward a New Deal land policy : the agrarian action programs and beyond, 1933-1938
  • 6. Reinventing education, research, and planning : the Cooperative Land-Use Program
  • 7. Continuing education : for citizens, scientists, and bureaucrats
  • 8. Reforming social science : participatory action research
  • 9. Unifying action : results of cooperative land-use planning
  • 10. Intended New Deal defeated, reassessed, and reclaimed
  • Appendix: List of program study and discussion pamphlets, 1935-1945.