Sarah T. Phillips

This Land, This Nation

Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

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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 o… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-521-61796-3
EAN: 9780521617963
Produktnummer: 2561926
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 310 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 479 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 479

Über den Autor

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.