This land is our land : the struggle for a new commonwealth / Jedediah Purdy.

By:

Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: Description: xxviii, 164 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0691195641
9780691195643

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.73/130973 23

LOC classification:

HD205 .P87 2019

Summary: "In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy...explores how we might begin to heal our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans, holding us in common projects and fates but also separating us into insiders and outsiders, owners and dependents, workers and bosses. Expropriated from Native Americans and transformed by slave labor, the same land that represents a history of racism and exploitation could, in the face of environmental catastrophe, bind us together in relationships of reciprocity and mutual responsibility." - From the Publisher

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	HD205 .P87 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001461366

Includes index.

"In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy...explores how we might begin to heal our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans, holding us in common projects and fates but also separating us into insiders and outsiders, owners and dependents, workers and bosses. Expropriated from Native Americans and transformed by slave labor, the same land that represents a history of racism and exploitation could, in the face of environmental catastrophe, bind us together in relationships of reciprocity and mutual responsibility." - From the Publisher

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