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The New Decentralists

The New Decentralists

Turman, Jinny A.

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 1959000888
ISBN13: 9781959000884
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The late 1960s found young, middle-class, white Americans embracing localism to escape federal bureaucracies and an increasingly impersonal society. The back-to-the-landers took this one step further by moving to rural areas, including Appalachia, in pursuit of self-reliance, liberation, and community. They championed agrarian decentralization, a vision of reform based on self-provisioning, neighborly reciprocity, and small-scale manufacturing. And they shared an interest in preserving folkways and certain social conventions and in protecting their farming communities against the threat of surface coal mining. Although localism seemed to be the solution for democratizing these communities, a conservative political shift scaling back federal regulation instead placed power in the hands of a new local and state political elite that did not share their values, leaving these agrarian communities more vulnerable to the threat of surface mining.

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