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Planning democracy: agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal

By Gilbert , Jess

Book information

Publisher
Yale Univ. Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780300207316, 030020731X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3366512 bytes)
Series
Yale agrarian studies series
Pages
\366
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1933-1939;Political science--PublicAgrarpolitik;Agriculture and state;Agriculture and

Description

Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti-New Dealers killed the successful program the next year. This book reexamines the era's agricultural policy and tells the neglected story of the New Deal agrarian leaders and their visionary ideas about land, democratization, and progressive social change.

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