Managing the Mountains
Managing the Mountains

Author: Sara M. Gregg

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 030014220X

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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.

Those who Stayed Behind
Those who Stayed Behind

Author: Hal S. Barron

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-01-29

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780521347778

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Hal Barron reconstructs the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community in America, Chelsea, Vermont. He explores the economic hardships and population loss that most of America at this time experienced growth and geographical expansion. This book provides an innovative contribution to the history of rural America.