Bibliograph

The unsettling of America, culture & agriculture, by Wendell Berry

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The unsettling of America, culture & agriculture, by Wendell Berry

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The unsettling of America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

903424574

Responsibility statement

by Wendell Berry

Sub title

culture & agriculture

Summary

Overview: Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although "this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong, " Berry writes, there are good people working "to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth." Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- Unsettling of America -- Ecological crisis as a crisis of character -- Ecological crisis as a crisis of agriculture -- Agricultural crisis as a crisis of culture -- Living in the future: the "modern" agricultural ideal -- Use of energy -- Body and the earth -- Jefferson, Morrill, and the upper crust -- Margins -- Afterword to the third edition -- Notes

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