| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 304 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Heaven in a flower -- You can see other people's poop -- A buzzel about Kantuck -- You can't eat scenery -- Never seen so much hair in your life -- Ain't nothin' in them books -- I haven't felt my hands in years -- Hard living -- Don't need their coal -- Epilogue: Without a chief |
| Summary |
"'You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.' That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today. Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society -- only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Self-reliant living -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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Self-reliant living -- Kentucky
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky
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Subsistence economy -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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Subsistence economy -- Kentucky
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Sociology, Rural -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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Sociology, Rural -- Kentucky
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Rural conditions
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Self-reliant living
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Rural
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Subsistence economy
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| SUBJECT |
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Kentucky -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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United States -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140507
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| Subject |
Kentucky
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Southern Appalachian Region
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019032950 |
| ISBN |
9780252051890 |
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0252051890 |
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