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Becoming Native to This Place
Wes Jackson
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Description for Becoming Native to This Place
Num Pages: 134 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSF; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 321.
The New World -- this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth -- was to represent a new beginning for civilized humanity. Unfortunately, even the best of the European settles had a stronger eye for conquest than for justice. Natives were in the way -- surplus people who must be literally displaced. Now, as ecologist Wes Jackson points out, descendants of those early beneficiaries of conquest find themselves the displaced persons, forced to vacated the family farmsteads and small towns of our heartland, leaving vacant the schools, churches, hardware stores, and barber shops. In a ringing ... Read more
The New World -- this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth -- was to represent a new beginning for civilized humanity. Unfortunately, even the best of the European settles had a stronger eye for conquest than for justice. Natives were in the way -- surplus people who must be literally displaced. Now, as ecologist Wes Jackson points out, descendants of those early beneficiaries of conquest find themselves the displaced persons, forced to vacated the family farmsteads and small towns of our heartland, leaving vacant the schools, churches, hardware stores, and barber shops. In a ringing ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813118468
SKU
V9780813118468
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-17
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