This radical land : a natural history of American dissent /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226336145 022633614X 9780226336282 022633628X |