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 1910s through the 1930s, 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.
- ISBN10 0300142196
- ISBN13 9780300142198
- Publish Date 12 November 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 25 August 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English