Back to the Land Enduring Dream Autarkiency Brown Homesteading 2011 PB

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Era
19th century, 20th century, 1800s-1900s
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Intended Audience
Adults
Inscribed
No
Signed
No
Book Series
Studies in American Thought and Culture
Topic
back-to-the-land movement, homesteading, American self-sufficienc
Vintage
No
Personalized
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Literary Movement
historical nonfiction, environmental scholarship
Edition
2011
Book Title
Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Moder
Original Language
English
Personalize
No
Signed By
N/A
Features
2011 pub, paperback, small university press, scholarly study
Genre
historical nonfiction, sustainability, environmental history, Ame
Ex Libris
No
ISBN
9780299250744
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299250741
ISBN-13
9780299250744
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99364542

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
300 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Back to the Land : the Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
Publication Year
2011
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, Sustainable Living, Environmental Conservation & Protection
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, House & Home, History
Author
Dona Brown
Series
Studies in American Thought and Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-038899
Reviews
"In historian Dona Brown, the back-to-the-land movement has found its supremely elegant and most empathetic chronicler. Brown lifts the movement out of its now obscure classical origin-the late-19th-century US-and foregrounds it in modern American contemporary concerns, such as food security, organic farming, and renewable energy. She does this so deftly that her work at once reads as a scholarly account of Americans' enduring romance with the countryside as well as a nostalgia-filled, emancipatory anthem to 'Jefferson bumpkins.' More importantly, her deeply researched work debunks the simplistic reading of the back-to-the-landers as seekers of hippie nirvana in country life. . . . Summing Up: Essential." - CHOICE, "What a splendid account of a movement that's usually caricatured. It taught me a lot about my state of Vermont, but also about the political and committed history of back-to-the-landers across American history. Forget your stereotype of the rugged individualist: this story turns out to be a lot more interesting than that!"-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, " Back to the Land is well researched, smoothly written, and often sharp and witty. The book does not engage with Vermont history specifically throughout its length, but Vermont and neighboring New England states play prominent roles in many of the stories that Brown tells. There is a great deal here to appeal to audiences from a range of backgrounds and with a range of historical interests. . . .[T]oday's back-to-the-landers will want to spend time reading and thinking about Brown's findings while they get down to the practical business of living and writing the next chapter in this longer American story."-- Vermont History, "A useful corrective to the idea that the country living movement is strictly an effort to get right with Mother Earth." - The Wilson Quarterly, "A useful corrective to the idea that the country living movement is strictly an effort to get right with Mother Earth."-- The Wilson Quarterly, "What a splendid account of a movement that's usually caricatured. It taught me a lot about my state of Vermont, but also about the political and committed history of back-to-the-landers across American history. Forget your stereotype of the rugged individualist: this story turns out to be a lot more interesting than that!"-Bill McKibben, authorEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, "A compelling work of extraordinary richness-a singular quilt of Americana concerning those who lived the ever-changing back-to-the-land movement and those who wrote about it as well. Cultural and agricultural history are happily wed here."-Michael Kammen, Cornell University, "What a splendid account of a movement that's usually caricatured. It taught me a lot about my state of Vermont, but also about the political and committed history of back-to-the-landers across American history. Forget your stereotype of the rugged individualist: this story turns out to be a lot more interesting than that!"--Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, " Back to the Land is well researched, smoothly written, and often sharp and witty. The book does not engage with Vermont history specifically throughout its length, but Vermont and neighboring New England states play prominent roles in many of the stories that Brown tells. There is a great deal here to appeal to audiences from a range of backgrounds and with a range of historical interests. . . .[T]oday's back-to-the-landers will want to spend time reading and thinking about Brown's findings while they get down to the practical business of living and writing the next chapter in this longer American story."- Vermont History, "In historian Dona Brown, the back-to-the-land movement has found its supremely elegant and most empathetic chronicler. Brown lifts the movement out of its now obscure classical origin--the late-19th-century US--and foregrounds it in modern American contemporary concerns, such as food security, organic farming, and renewable energy. She does this so deftly that her work at once reads as a scholarly account of Americans' enduring romance with the countryside as well as a nostalgia-filled, emancipatory anthem to 'Jefferson bumpkins.' More importantly, her deeply researched work debunks the simplistic reading of the back-to-the-landers as seekers of hippie nirvana in country life. . . . Summing Up: Essential." -- CHOICE, "A compelling work of extraordinary richness--a singular quilt of Americana concerning those who lived the ever-changing back-to-the-land movement and those who wrote about it as well. Cultural and agricultural history are happily wed here."--Michael Kammen, Cornell University, "A useful corrective to the idea that the country living movement is strictly an effort to get right with Mother Earth."- The Wilson Quarterly
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
307.2/60973
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: The First American Back-to-the-Land Movement 1. The Back-to-the-Land Project 2. Adventures in Contentment: Some Back-to-the-Land Writers and Their Readers 3. Who Wants a Farm? 4. From Little Lands to Suburban Farms Coda: Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City Part 2: Returning to Back to the Land 5. Subsistence Homesteads: The New Deal Goes Back to the Land Coda: Ralph Borsodi Rejects the New Deal 6. "I'll Take My Stand" (in Vermont): Decentralizing the Back-to-the-Land Movement Coda: The Nearings Invent Their Own Vermont 7. Back to the Garden: The 1970s Epilogue: Home, Land, Security Notes Index
Synopsis
For many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s--hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest back-to-the-landers are part of a much larger story. Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land ever since they started to leave it. In Back to the Land , Dona Brown explores the history of this recurring impulse. ? Back-to-the-landers have often been viewed as nostalgic escapists or romantic nature-lovers. But their own words reveal a more complex story. In such projects as Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City," and Helen and Scott Nearing's quest for "the good life," Brown finds that the return to the farm has meant less a going-backwards than a going-forwards, a way to meet the challenges of the modern era. Progressive reformers pushed for homesteading to help impoverished workers get out of unhealthy urban slums. Depression-era back-to-the-landers, wary of the centralizing power of the New Deal, embraced a new "third way" politics of decentralism and regionalism. Later still, the movement merged with environmentalism. To understand Americans' response to these back-to-the-land ideas, Brown turns to the fan letters of ordinary readers--retired teachers and overworked clerks, recent immigrants and single women. In seeking their rural roots, Brown argues, Americans have striven above all for the independence and self-sufficiency they associate with the agrarian ideal. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, For many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest back-to-the-landers are part of a much larger story. Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land ever since they started to leave it. In Back to the Land , Dona Brown explores the history of this recurring impulse. ? Back-to-the-landers have often been viewed as nostalgic escapists or romantic nature-lovers. But their own words reveal a more complex story. In such projects as Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City," and Helen and Scott Nearing's quest for "the good life," Brown finds that the return to the farm has meant less a going-backwards than a going-forwards, a way to meet the challenges of the modern era. Progressive reformers pushed for homesteading to help impoverished workers get out of unhealthy urban slums. Depression-era back-to-the-landers, wary of the centralizing power of the New Deal, embraced a new "third way" politics of decentralism and regionalism. Later still, the movement merged with environmentalism. To understand Americans' response to these back-to-the-land ideas, Brown turns to the fan letters of ordinary readers-retired teachers and overworked clerks, recent immigrants and single women. In seeking their rural roots, Brown argues, Americans have striven above all for the independence and self-sufficiency they associate with the agrarian ideal. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, Back-to-the-landers have often been viewed as nostalgic escapists or romantic nature-lovers. But their own words and those of their readers reveal a more complex story. The return to the farm, Dona Brown finds, means less a going-backwards than a going-forwards, a way to meet the challenges of the modern era. In seeking their rural roots, Americans strive above all for the self-sufficiency they associate with the agrarian ideal.
LC Classification Number
HT381.B76 2011

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