Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal /
Jess Gilbert ; foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall.
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015.
- xx, 341 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Yale agrarian studies series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780300207316 : (hbk.)
Agriculture and state--History--United States--20th century. New Deal, 1933-1939. Land use--Government policy--History--United States--20th century. Land reform--History--United States--20th century. Social scientists--Political activity--History--United States--20th century. Farmers--Political activity--History--United States--20th century. Social reformers--History--United States--20th century. Democratization--History--United States--20th century. Social change--History--United States--20th century.