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100	1		_aPurdy, Jedediah _d(1974-)
245	1	0	_aThis land is our land : _bthe struggle for a new commonwealth _c/ Jedediah Britton Purdy.
260			_aNew Jersey _b: Princeton University Press _c, c2019
300			_a164 pages _c; 21 cm.
520			_aFrom one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us--and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth--a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy, one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, 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. This may seem idealistic in our polarized time, but we are at a historical fork in the road, and if we do not make efforts now to move toward a commonwealth, Purdy warns, environmental and political pressures will create harsher and crueler conflicts--between citizens, between countries, and between humans and the rest of the world.
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650		4	_aLand use _x-Social aspects
650		4	_aLand use _x-Environmental aspects
650		4	_aEcology
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government
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