Managing the Mountains - Land Use Planning, New Deal, Creation of a Federal Landscape in

Zusammenfassung Uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest! park! and agricultural policy. This title explores the redevelopment of the Appalachian Mountains from the 1910s through the 1930s! finding in this region a changing paradigm of land use planning that laid the groundwork for the national New Deal.

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• Authors: Sara M. Gregg, Gregg Sara M.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2013
• EAN: 9780300192568
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19256-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies (Paperba; Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies; Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Environmental Management, Social impact of environmental issues, History of the Americas, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Northeastern & North Atlantic States, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), US Northeast