The Unsettling of America : : Culture & Agriculture

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Conservation / Berry, Wendell, 338.109 Be
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"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
Ch. 1. The Unsettling of America -- Ch. 2. The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character -- Ch. 3. The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture -- Ch. 4. The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture -- Ch. 5. Living in the Future: The "Modern" Agricultural Ideal -- Ch. 6. The Use of Energy -- Ch. 7. The Body and the Earth -- Ch. 8. Jefferson, Morrill, and the Upper Crust -- Ch. 9. Margins.
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 - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in the afterword to this new edition, his arguments and observations are still relevant today. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economics dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits.

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profound and insightful submitted by John Staunton on August 30, 2018, 10:01pm Berry's work is always meditative, poetic, and deeply grounded in place.

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