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Author Gilbert, Jess Carr.

Title Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal / Jess Gilbert ; foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
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 Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject New Deal, 1933-1939.
Agriculture and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture and state.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject New Deal, 1933-1939.
Land use -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Land use -- Government policy.
Land reform -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Land reform.
Social scientists -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social scientists -- Political activity.
Social scientists.
Farmers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Farmers -- Political activity.
Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social reformers.
Democratization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Democratization.
Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social change.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gilbert, Jess Carr. Planning democracy 9780300207316 (DLC) 2014033414 (OCoLC)894310423
ISBN 9780300213393 electronic book
0300213395 electronic book
9780300207316 print