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

Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 341 pages) : illustrations Series Yale agrarian studies series Yale agrarian studies. Contents Foreword / by Richard S. Kirkendall -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The agrarian intellectuals' vision : the intended New Deal as a planning democracy -- 3. Growing agrarian reformers in the Midwest : a collective biography -- 4. Modernizing eastern urban liberals : a comparison with the other progressive group in agriculture -- 5. Struggling toward a New Deal land policy : the agrarian action programs and beyond, 1933-1938 -- 6. Reinventing education, research, and planning : the Cooperative Land-Use Program -- 7. Continuing education : for citizens, scientists, and bureaucrats -- 8. Reforming social science : participatory action research -- 9. Unifying action : results of cooperative land-use planning -- 10. Intended New Deal defeated, reassessed, and reclaimed -- Appendix: List of program study and discussion pamphlets, 1935-1945 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 Notes Print version record Subject Agriculture and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century New Deal, 1933-1939. Land use -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century Land reform -- United States -- History -- 20th century Social scientists -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century Farmers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century Democratization -- United States -- History -- 20th century Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century New Deal. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. New Deal, 1933-1939 Agriculture and state Democratization Farmers -- Political activity Land reform Land use -- Government policy Social change Social reformers Social scientists -- Political activity United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kirkendall, Richard Stewart, 1928- writer of foreword. LC no. 2014033414 ISBN 9780300213393 0300213395 030020731X 9780300207316 9780300223057 0300223056

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