The Earth Is Ours, Not Mine
A History of Environmental Justice
$49.30
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2027
Summary
Tracing the roots of environmental justice through five centuries
In The Earth Is Ours, Not Mine, Aaron Sachs shows that the idea of environmental justice goes back not decades but centuries—that it originated not in late twentieth-century campaigns against disproportionate environmental harm, but hundreds of years earlier, when English commoners attempted to reclaim the commons and Native Americans tried to protect their land against encroachment by European…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691291499 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691291497 |
| Author: | Aaron Sachs |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Aaron Sachs
Aaron Sachs is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton), short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change.
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