Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal / Jess Gilbert ; foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall.
Gilbert, Jess Carr.
2015
HD1761 .G54 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal / Jess Gilbert ; foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall.
Author Gilbert, Jess Carr.
ISBN 9780300207316 (hardcover)
030020731X (hardcover)
Published New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2015]
Language English
Description xx, 341 pages ; 25 cm.
Call Number HD1761 .G54 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.1/873
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Yale agrarian studies.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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The Agrarian Intellectuals' Vision : The Intended New Deal as a Planning Democracy
Part I. Social Roots and Early Fruits : Collective Biographies, Alternative Modernisms, and the First Two Agrarian New Deals
Growing Agrarian Reformers in the Midwest : A Collective Biography
Modernizing Eastern Urban Liberals : A Comparison with the Other Progressive Group in Agriculture
Struggling Toward a New Deal Land Policy : The Agrarian Action Programs and Beyond, 1933-1938
Part II. The Flowering of Democratic Planning : The Third and Intended New Deal in Agriculture, 1938-1942
Reinventing Education, Research, and Planning : The Cooperative Land-Use Program
Continuing Education : For Citizens, Scientists, and Bureaucrats
Reforming Social Science : Participatory Action Research
Unifying Action : Results of Cooperative Land-Use Planning
Intended New Deal Defeated, Reassessed, and Reclaimed
Appendix: List of Program Study and Discussion Pamphlets, 1935-1945.

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