The Unsettling of America
Subtitle: Culture & Agriculture
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: March 19, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780871568779
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; Cultural studies; United States; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Agricultural Economics; Agricultural History; Technology; Sociology; USA; Social aspects; Essays; Sociology - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Agriculture; Agriculture - General; Economic aspects
Description: In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in the afterword to this new edition, his arguments and observations are still relevant today.

We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economics dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits.