Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism

by Jason G. Strange

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252084896
• ISBN13: 9780252084898
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"