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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano --- New Deal, 1933-1939

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This 2007 book combines political with environmental history to present conservation policy as a critical arm of New Deal reform, one that embodied the promises and limits of midcentury American liberalism. It interprets the natural resource programs of the 1930s and 1940s as a set of federal strategies aimed at rehabilitating the economies of agricultural areas. The New Dealers believed that the country as a whole would remain mired in depression as long as its farmers remained poorer than its urban residents, and these politicians and policymakers set out to rebuild rural life and raise rural incomes with measures tied directly to conservation objectives - land retirement, soil restoration, flood control, and affordable electricity for homes and industries. In building new constituencies for the environmental initiatives, resource administrators and their liberal allies established the political justification for an enlarged federal government and created the institutions that shaped the contemporary rural landscape.

Conservation of natural resources --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- History --- Conservation --- United States --- Politics and government --- Arts and Humanities

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"Examines New Deal relief programs in Kansas throughout the Depression from the perspective of recipients, social workers, and poor commissioners. By focusing on the relationship among the local, state, and federal governments, Peter Fearon shows how the successful operation of work relief depended on the effectiveness of those partnerships"--Provided by publisher.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Economic History --- Public service employment --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Depressions --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Commercial crises --- Crises, Commercial --- Economic depressions --- Employment, Public service --- Work relief --- Business cycles --- Recessions --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Full employment policies --- Manpower policy --- Civil service --- New Deal (1933-1939) --- E-books

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The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America's open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. America's democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America's federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.

United States --- Economic policy. --- History. --- wealth, quality of life, living standards, economics, economy, participation, engagement, democracy, politics, voting, nonfiction, government, interest groups, innovation, infrastructure, freedom, individual rights, law, legal system, private property, national defense, welfare state, regulation, history, farm programs, new deal, civil service, bureaucracy, patronage, reconstruction, labor, education, health, taxation, land policy.

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Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930's to the early 1970's. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" in the late 1960's. It explores how these migrant musicians and their audiences came to gain a sense of identity through music and mass media, to embrace the New Deal, and to celebrate African American and Mexican American musical influences before turning toward a more conservative outlook. What emerges is a clear picture of how important Southern California was to country music and how country music helped shape the politics and culture of Southern California and of the nation.

Popular culture --- Music --- Country music --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Country and western music --- Hillbilly music --- Western and country music --- Folk music --- Popular music --- Old-time music --- History --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Country music - California - History and criticism. --- 1930s. --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- 20th century. --- america. --- american music. --- country music scene. --- country music. --- cultural history. --- cultural politics. --- depression era. --- dust bowl migration. --- great depression. --- hillbilly. --- identity. --- los angeles. --- mass media. --- mass migration. --- merle haggard. --- migrant musicians. --- migration. --- music and culture. --- music historians. --- music history. --- new deal. --- oklahoma. --- political history. --- regional history. --- southern california. --- united states. --- us history. --- woody guthrie.