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Carregando... This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent (edição: 2018)de Daegan Miller (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This "four act play" by Daegan Miller, an academic, covers historical events not typically includes in the evolution of environmentalism in the United States. For instance, one of the acts is about an African American settlement in the Adirondack mountains of New York that did not persist, with another chapter on a Marxist colony in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the shadow of giant sequoias. While interesting, the writing can be dense at times and the conclusion is somewhat nebulous. I would recommend it to students of conservation and environmentalism. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"...Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California's sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent--drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we're still struggling to strengthen today..."--Dust jacket. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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