This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth by Purdy, Jedediah
This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth by Purdy, Jedediah

This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth

From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land...
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Author: Jedediah Purdy
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This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth by Purdy, Jedediah

This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth

$66.89
This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth by Purdy, Jedediah

This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth

$66.89
Author: Jedediah Purdy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From 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 us

Today, 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.

Author: Jedediah Purdy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780691195643


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About the Author
Jedediah Purdy is professor of law at Columbia Law School. His previous books include After Nature, A Tolerable Anarchy, Being America, and For Common Things. He contributes to the New Yorker, the Nation, the New Republic, the Atlantic, n+1, and other magazines. He lives in New York City. Twitter @JedediahSPurdy
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