Remaking the agrarian dream
Subtitle: New Deal rural resettlement in the Mountain West
By: Brian Q. Cannon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- United States.; Farmers -- United States -- Social conditions.; New Deal, 1933-1939.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rural resettlement : an overview; title: "To rearrange the earth and the people thereof" : planning the resettlement program; title: "We're going to a land of snowcapped mountains"; title: "Everything was different" : learning to farm in new ways; title: The farmers and market forces; title: "In the manner of economic men" : theoretical implications of the relocatees' behavior; title: "The clients are one body"; title: "A matter of cool, rational self-interest" : the relocatees and the New Deal; title: Achievements; title: In retrospect : the meaning of the resettlement experience.