Nature's new deal : the Civilian Conservation Corps and the roots of the American environmental movement
Neil M. Maher (Author)
Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism
History
1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780198041740, 9781435620131, 9780199867820, 0198041748, 1435620135, 0199867828
191040286
Introduction : New Deal conservation
Ideas : Franklin Roosevelt's Progressive Era influences
Landscape : the evolution of CCC conservation
Labor : enrollee work and the body politic
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