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Author Gregg, Sara M.

Title Managing the mountains : land use planning, the New Deal, and the creation of a federal landscape in Appalachia / Sara M. Gregg.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Farms and forests: an Appalachian portrait -- 1: Origins -- A harvest of scarcity: self-sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- Customs in common: community and agriculture in the Green Mountains -- Academics and partisans: federal land use planning, 1900-1933 -- 2: Projects -- Designing the Shenandoah National Park -- Cultivating the Vermont forest -- Reforming submarginal lands, 1933-1938 -- Epilogue: cellarholes and wilderness: the returns of the Appalachian forest.
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Subject New Deal, 1933-1939.
Regional planning -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century.
Regional planning.
Appalachian Region.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject New Deal, 1933-1939.
Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gregg, Sara M. Managing the mountains. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010 9780300142198 (DLC) 2010929597 (OCoLC)683200019
ISBN 9780300142204 (electronic book)
030014220X (electronic book)
9780300142198
0300142196