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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on November 6, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(4):843-845; doi:10.1093/es/khn088
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Sarah T. Phillips. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 289 pp. ISBN 978-0521-852708, $75.00 (cloth); 978-0-521-61796-3, $23.99 (paper)

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This Land, This Nation is a story of the transformation of conservation policy during a period of economic, environmental, and social crisis. Sarah T. Phillips illuminates the process of state building and its relationship to natural resources, ideology, and capitalism. In the eyes of influential agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, the health of America's rural land and people was essential to national health. Poor land, conservationists argued, meant poor people and vice versa. Rural rehabilitation was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. L. Anderson

University of West Georgia


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