Nature's New Deal The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement

Name: Nature's New Deal The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
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ISBN: 9780195392418

ISBN-10: 0195392418

ISBN-13: 9780195392418

Edition: 2010

Authors: Neil M. Maher

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As Barack Obama and the nation struggle with the present economic crisis, the New Deal has become the subject of renewed interest. This engaging volume examines one of the New Deal's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and the environmental movement. Historian Neil Maher shows how Roosevelt addressed both economic and environmental crises by putting Americans to work at conserving natural resources, through the Soil Conservation Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC created public landscapes that helped environmentalism blossom after World…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034



Introduction: New Deal Conservation



Ideas: Franklin Roosevelt's Progressive Era Influences



Landscapes: The Evolution of CCC Conservation



Labor: Enrollee Work and the Body Politics



Community: Locals and Next Door Natures



Nation: The Great Conservation Debate



Planning: From Top-Down Conservation to Bottom-Up Environment


Epilogue: New Deal Landscapes in the Environmental Era