The resettling of America

The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 34-51

  Donahue, Brian ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (17)

1. Marty Strange, Family Farming: A New Economic Vision (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).
2. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).
3. Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977), 62.
4. On the Amish see Berry, Unsettling, 210-17.
5. On colonial New England see Brian Donahue, The Great Meadow: The Nature of Husbandry in Colonial Concord, Massachusetts (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2004).
6. Henry D. Thoreau, Walden (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973), 165.
7. Albert E. Cowdrey, This Land, This South: An Environmental History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983);
8. William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990);
9. Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979);
10. Donald Worster, "Cowboy Ecology", in Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) 34-52;
11. Joseph V. Hickey, Ghost Settlement on the Prairie: A Biography of Thurman, Kansas, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995).
12. James Lemon, The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1972)
13. Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb Jr., For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994).
14. Eric T. Freyfogle's essay, "Private Property Rights in Land: An Agrarian View", in this volume.
15. Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, New Hampshire Everlasting: An Initiative to Conserve Our Quality-of-Life (Concord, N. H.: SPNHF, 2001).
16. Land's Sake is detailed in Brian Donahue, Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
17. Gene Logsdon, At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream (New York: Pantheon, 1994).