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  2. This land, this nation: conservation, rural America, and the New Deal

This land, this nation: conservation, rural America, and the New Deal

Sarah T. Phillips c2007 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9780521617963 (paper)
  • 9780511271373 (ebook)
  • 9780521852708 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Environmental History
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes (page vii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • I The New Conservation (page 21)
    • Giant Power, Rural Electrification, and Regional Thought (page 25)
    • The Farm Crisis and the Land Utilization Movement (page 36)
    • Herbert Hoover and Rural Conservation Policy, 1928-1932 (page 46)
    • FDR: Governor and Candidate (page 59)
  • 2 Poor People, Poor Land (page 75)
    • The Tennessee Valley Authority (page 83)
    • Beyond TVA: Land Utilization and Rural Rehabilitation (page 107)
    • Buried in Dirt: The Resettlement Idea and The Future of the Great Plains (page 120)
    • Rural Electrification, Soil Conservation, Water Control, and Farm Security (page 132)
  • 3 "The Best New Dealer from Texas" (page 149)
    • The Hill Country Setting (page 153)
    • Historical Development of the Colorado River Congressman Johnson (page 162)
    • LCRA Expansion: Rural Electrification, Recreation, and Wartime Growth (page 174)
  • 4 The Industrial Transition (page 197)
    • The Resurrected AAA and the BAE's County Planning Experiment (page 200)
    • World War II and the Decline of Agrarian Policy (page 212)
    • Jobs for All: Industrial Expansion and Wartime Resource Policy (page 223)
  • Conclusion (page 238)
  • Epilogue: Exporting the New Deal (page 242)
    • Wartime Assistance, Postwar Institution Building, and the Cold War (page 247)
    • The Point Four Program (page 264)
    • The New Conservation Abroad (page 281)
  • Index (page 285)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
EnS 9.4 (Dec. 2008): 843-845 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255472
JSocH 42.2 (Winter. 2008): 510-512 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/257314
JIH 39.1 (Summer. 2008): 152-154 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/240942
SH 33.3 (Aug. 2008): 358-359 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25594274
PSQ 123.1 (Spring. 2008): 196-197 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203003
JSH 74.4 (Nov. 2008): 1010-1011 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27650377
WHQ 39.3 (Autumn. 2008): 355-356 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25443740
JAH 95.1 (Jun. 2008): 254-255 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25095568
AgH 83.1 (Winter. 2009): 122-123 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20454923
AmQ 60.4 (Dec. 2008): 1099-1111 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068564
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