Bitter Harvest: An Inquiry into the War between Economy and Earth - Softcover

Krall, Lisi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438489900 ISBN 13: 9781438489902

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2023

Synopsis

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Humans are in danger of crossing a divide where their foothold on an earth once abundant in self-willed otherness is slipping away. This is apparent with the sixth mass extinction, climate change, and the many breaches of planetary boundaries. Bitter Harvest brings clarity to this moment in history through a focus on economic order, how it comes to be what it is, and the way it structures the relationship between humans and Earth. An unusual synergy of disciplines (evolutionary biology, history, economic systems analysis, anthropology, and deep ecology) are tapped to fully explore the emergence of an economic system that contextualized a duality between humans and Earth. Conversations that focus on capitalism and the industrial revolution are subsumed under the longer arc of history and the system change that began with the cultivation of annual grains. Bitter Harvest engenders a more critical conversation about the complexity of the human relationship to Earth and the challenge of altering the economic trajectory that began with agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

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About the Author

Lisi Krall is Professor of Economics at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She is the author of Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History, also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438489900
• ISBN 13: 9781438489902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196