TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conkin,Paul K.
TI  - Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program 
SN  - 9781501741678
AV  - HD1761 
U1  - 309.260973 18
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Rural development
KW  - United States
KW  - Social change
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; Part One: Of Men And Their Ideas --; I. The Land Our Refuge and Our Strength --; II. Bringing the Town to the Country --; III. Bringing the Country to the Town --; IV. From Acorn to Oak --; Part Two: Of Bureaus And Bureaucrats --; V. The Subsistence Homesteads Program --; VI. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration Communities --; VII. America Resettled --; VIII. The Community As A Locale For A New Society --; IX. The Old Society Reasserts Its Claims --; Part Three: Of Individual Communities --; X. Arthurdale An Experimental Community --; XI. Jersey Homesteads A Triple Co-operative --; XII. Penderlea Homesteads Something Less than a Rural Paradise --; XIII. Granger Homesteads An Escape from Modernity --; XIV. The Greenbelt Towns --; In Retrospect --; Appendix --; Bibliographical Note --; Index; restricted access
N2  - During the New Deal, three governmental agencies planned, constructed, and managed about a hundred small communities of various types in all parts of the country, hopefully laying the foundation for a new world of tomorrow—a planned world of co-operation and economic security.Mr. Conkin traces the development and implementation of this complex concept through the minds of many men and the struggles of the different agencies in one of the first detailed histories of a specific New Deal program
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501741678
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