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In The Unsettling of America 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, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - fro…
A critical inquiry into the ways Americans have exploited and continue to exploit the land that sustains them, tracing attitudes toward and methods of farming from the eighteenth century to the present.
In The Unsettling of America 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, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - fro…
In this book, the author argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Twentieth-century agribusiness, however, took farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation, he argues, we are thus more estranged from the land - …
"Offering fresh insights from the disciplines of education, law, history, urban and regional planning, economics, philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, and agriculture, the original essays in The Essential Agrarian Reader develop a sophisticated critique of our culture's curr…
"Offering fresh insights from the disciplines of education, law, history, urban and regional planning, economics, philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, and agriculture, the original essays in The Essential Agrarian Reader develop a sophisticated critique of our culture's curr…
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As interest has increased in topics such as globalization of the agri-food system, food security and food safety, there are a growing number of courses in disciplines including agriculture and food studies. This book is an introductory textbook aimed at undergraduate students, a…