ISBN:
9780520256569
,
9780520251090
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xii, 416 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
First paperback printing
DDC:
304.20973
Schlagwort(e):
Kultur
;
Landschaft
;
Politik
;
Politik
;
Political ecology
;
Human ecology
;
Landscape assessment
;
USA
;
USA
;
United States Politics and government
Kurzfassung:
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium--not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view.--From publisher description.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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