Laid Waste! - The Culture of Exploitation in Early America

John Lauritz Larson is Professor of History at Purdue University and author of The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good.

About the author

John Lauritz Larson is Professor of History at Purdue University and author of The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good.

Summary

How did we come to endanger the very future of life on Earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? Laid Waste! answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American culture of exploitation that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this came to be.

Product details

• Authors: John Lauritz Larson
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780812251845
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5184-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Umweltmanagement, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte