1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784385403321

Titolo

Beyond preservation [[electronic resource] ] : restoring and inventing landscapes / / A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., Judith De Luce, and Carl Pletsch, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8548-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaldwinA. Dwight

De LuceJudith

PletschCarl

Disciplina

333.73/153

Soggetti

Restoration ecology

Landscape protection

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: BEYOND PRESERVATION; PART II: THEORY; PART III: PRACTICE; PART IV: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES; PART V: RESPONSES; Conclusion: Constructing a New Ecological Paradigm; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Addressing current ecological issues, from the philosophical to the practical, Frederick Turner and William R. Jordan III Here offer a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between the humans and nature. Challenging the idea that preserving nature is the only solution to environmental problems, they advocate going beyond preservation to restoration and actual construction of our landscape. Fifteen respondents reflect on the implications and consequences of Turner's and Jordan's bold proposals.Contributors include Gary W. Barrett, Ann Cline, David L. Gorchov, William Jordan III, G. St



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818524603321

Autore

Rosenberg Gabriel N.

Titolo

The 4-H harvest : sexuality and the state in rural America / / Gabriel N. Rosenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8122-9189-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Politics and Culture in Modern America

Disciplina

630.6073

Soggetti

4-H clubs - United States - History

Sociology, Rural - 20th century - History - 20th century

Agriculture - United States - Social aspects - History - 20th century

United States Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Signs of the State -- Chapter 1. Agrarian Futurism, Rural Degeneracy, and the Origins of 4-H -- Chapter 2. Financial Intimacy and Rural Manhood -- Chapter 3. 4-H Body Politics in the 1920's -- Chapter 4. Conserving Farm and Family in New Deal 4-H -- Chapter 5. Citizenship and Difference in Wartime 4-H -- Chapter 6. International 4-H in the Cold War -- Epilogue. Future Farmers of Afghanistan: Agrarian Futurism at the Twilight of Empire -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As the first comprehensive history of the organization, The 4-H Harvest tracks 4-H from its origins in turn-of-the-century agricultural modernization efforts, through its role in the administration of federal programs during the New Deal and World War II, to its status as an instrument of international development in Cold War battlegrounds like Vietnam and Latin America. In domestic and global settings, 4-H's advocates dreamed of transforming rural economies, communities, and families. Organizers believed the clubs would bypass backward patriarchs reluctant to embrace modern



farming techniques. In their place, 4-H would cultivate efficient, capital-intensive farms and convince rural people to trust federal expertise. The modern 4-H farm also featured gender-appropriate divisions of labor and produced healthy, robust children. To retain the economic potential of the "best" youth, clubs insinuated state agents at the heart of rural family life. By midcentury, the vision of healthy 4-H'ers on family farms advertised the attractiveness of the emerging agribusiness economy. With rigorous archival research, Gabriel N. Rosenberg provocatively argues that public acceptance of the political economy of agribusiness hinged on federal efforts to establish a modern rural society through effective farming technology and techniques as well as through carefully managed gender roles, procreation, and sexuality. The 4-H Harvest shows how 4-H, like the countryside it often symbolizes, is the product of the modernist ambition to efficiently govern rural economies, landscapes, and populations.