{"product_id":"this-radical-land-daegan-miller-9780226336145","title":"This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent","description":"\"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,\" wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. 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. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There's much truth in that vision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that's been mostly forgotten. \u003ci\u003eThis Radical Land \u003c\/i\u003erecovers 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. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California's sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent--drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we're still struggling to strengthen today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past--and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daegan Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022633614X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226336145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018","brand":"Daegan Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990112338175,"sku":"9780226336145","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0219c358-b551-4665-bb21-1ed8e7e136a7.jpg?v=1683303063","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-radical-land-daegan-miller-9780226336145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}