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This Land, This Nation - Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Paperback)
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This Land, This Nation - Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Paperback)
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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
objectives ? land retirement, soil restoration, flood control, and
affordable electricity for homes and industries. In building new
constituencies for the environmental initiatives, resource
administrators and their liberal allies established the political
justification for an enlarged federal government and created the
institutions that shaped the contemporary rural landscape. Sarah T.
Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Columbia
University.
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