Ebook {Epub PDF} This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent by Daegan Miller

 · "Drawing on superb scholarly detective work, This Radical Land tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that, however ignored, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of bltadwin.ru: University of Chicago Press.  · This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent. This Radical Land.: Daegan Miller. University of Chicago Press, - History - 3/5(1). This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path.

The author Ruth Ozeki finishes her novel All Over Creation (Penguin, ) with the image of a masked, skateboarding World Trade Organization protester carrying a sign that reads: "Resistance is Fertile" (p. ). In This Radical Land, Daegan Miller explores similar characters who sought to keep wildness alive in the face of American capitalism's abstraction and destruction. 5 Questions with Daegan Miller, Author of This Radical Land, City Lights. In conversation with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, for KPFA's Up Front. Interview here. June, 7 questions for Daegan Miller about This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, University of Chicago Press Blog. June, Miller, Daegan. (). This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., pp. $ ISBN: Daegan Miller's book explores concepts such as environmentalism, wilderness, and community development in the context of 19th-century westward expansion and growth in the United States.

A Natural History of American Dissent. Daegan Miller. “The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. 7 questions for Daegan Miller about This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent J J by Dean Daegan Miller’s new book This Radical Land has been receiving strong praise for its unearthing of forgotten nineteenth-century stories of American dissent and environmental awareness. A NATURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN DISSENT. by Daegan Miller ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, A debut book that ranges across disciplines and decades to connect the natural environment—especially long-lived trees—to a scathing critique of American-style capitalism. Alternating abstract theory with impressive research, both bolstered by extensive sources listed in a nearpage endnotes section, the author, who has taught at Cornell and the University of Wisconsin, builds his case about.