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Agrarianism and the good society : land, culture, conflict, and hope / / Eric T. Freyfogle



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Autore: Freyfogle Eric T Visualizza persona
Titolo: Agrarianism and the good society : land, culture, conflict, and hope / / Eric T. Freyfogle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
Disciplina: 306.3/490973
Soggetto topico: Land use - Environmental aspects - United States
Environmental degradation - United States
Environmental ethics - United States
Human ecology - United States
Social values - United States
National characteristics, American
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Life in the enclaves -- A durable scale -- The education of Ada -- Framing our choices -- Goodbye to the public-private divide -- Back toward community -- Love and democracy -- Wanted: environmental leader -- The politics of homeland health.
Sommario/riassunto: Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it shapes and inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about American culture while illuminating the intellectual origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats, over-engineered rivers, and degraded forests and grasslands. These land-use crises, he contends, arise mostly because of cultural attitudes that once made sense on the American frontier but now threaten our natural resources. To support and sustain healthy communities, profound adjus
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ISBN: 0-8131-3488-9
1-283-23313-4
9786613233134
0-8131-7250-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824674303321
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Serie: Culture of the land.