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Shelter from the Machine - Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism (Hardcover)
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Shelter from the Machine - Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism (Hardcover)
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"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.
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