TY - BOOK AU - Purdy,Jedediah TI - This land is our land: the struggle for a new commonwealth SN - 0691195641 AV - HD205 .P87 2019 U1 - 333.73/130973 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Land use KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Environmental aspects KW - Politics and government KW - Environmental conditions N1 - Includes index N2 - "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 ER -