This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

by Sarah Phillips

This 2007 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521617960
• ISBN13: 9780521617963
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"