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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790298103321

Autore

Gregg Sara M

Titolo

Managing the mountains [[electronic resource] ] : land use planning, the New Deal, and the creation of a federal landscape in Appalachia / / Sara M. Gregg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-57160-8

9786613601209

0-300-14220-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Yale agrarian studies series

Disciplina

307.12097409043

Soggetti

Regional planning - Appalachian Region - History - 20th century

New Deal, 1933-1939

Appalachian Region Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction Farms and Forests: An Appalachian Portrait -- Chapter One. A Harvest of Scarcity: Self-Sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- Chapter Two. Customs in Common: Community And Agriculture In The Green Mountains -- Chapter Three. Academics and Partisans: Federal Land Use Planning, 1900- 1933 -- Chapter Four. Designing the Shenandoah National Park -- Chapter Five. Cultivating the Vermont Forest -- Chapter Six. Reforming Submarginal Lands, 1933-1938 -- Epilogue: Cellarholes and Wilderness: The Return of the Appalachian Forest -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural policy. Sara M. Gregg explores the redevelopment of the Appalachian Mountains from the 1910's through the 1930's, finding in this region a changing paradigm of land use planning that laid the groundwork for the national New Deal. Through an intensive analysis of federal planning in Virginia and



Vermont, Gregg contextualizes the expansion of the federal government through land use planning and highlights the deep intellectual roots of federal conservation policy.