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Green Victorians
Albritton, Vicky; Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton
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Description for Green Victorians
hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 243 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community.
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From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226339986
SKU
V9780226339986
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99-1
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