Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195392418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Millions of Americans devoted themselves to a new vision of conservation, one that went beyond the old model of simply maximizing the efficient use of natural resources, to include the promotion of human health through outdoor recreation, wilderness preservation, and ecological balance. The CCC created public landscapes--natural terrain altered by federal work projects--that helped environmentalism blossom after World War II, Maher notes. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Maher examines the history of
Besides enlarging the debate to include human conservation, the ranks of the interested were swelled by what the CCC accomplished, not least by former enrollees who flocked to forestry jobs and the forestry departments of state universities, but also by the legion of citizens who had some to value recreating in altered landscapes, and even by the opponents of CCC "violations" of pristine nature. This is an ambitious and imaginative book that opens new terrain for historians."--Matthew Klingle, American Historical Review"A meticulously researched history of Franklin D. Nature's New Deal is req
Maher is Associate Professor of History, Federated History Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology--Rutgers University, Newark. . Neil M
PrincessBioNerd said but the book is pretty dry.. Was required for a class. Interesting topic, but the book is pretty dry.. Sky said Not sure who the target audience is. I struggled to read this book to read much of this book. It was for a quiz in a history class, but taking the "c" grade was much less painful than this book.. A Superb Account of a Classic New Deal Organization That Accomplished Much Good Neil Maher has written an outstanding account of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a pathbreaking experiment of the New Deal in which young people were brought together in camps to undertake conservation work on the nation's natural resources. They rescued public lands from desolation by planting trees and undertaking other efforts to return the wilderness to a pristine condition. Millions of Americans worked for the CCC at one tim