Hinterland
America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict
Published on 12. March 2018
192 pages
978-1-78023-945-3 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last forty years, the landscape of the USA has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering coastal hubs for finance, infotech and the so-called 'creative class'. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America's hinterland.
Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up and intimate view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail.
Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up and intimate view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail.
Reviews / Votes
Hinterland is where the future slouches toward Bethlehem. Phil Neel's dazzling journeys through the burned-over landscapes of end-time capitalism - the despoiled remnants of rural America, the exfoliating zones of suburban poverty - compel us to rethink what class conflict looks like not only in America, but around the world. The exhausted shibboleths of what's left of the Left vaporize in the heat of his prose. * Steve Fraser, author of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power * Imagine Patrick Leigh Fermor and Karl Marx on a road trip through the hubs and corridors of rust-belt America . . . Ambitious, polemical, brilliant. * Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78023-945-3 (9781780239453)
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Person
Phil A. Neel was raised in a mobile home in the Siskiyou Mountains, on the border of California and Oregon. He writes regularly on diverse topics and currently lives in Seattle.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Cult of the City
- One: Oaths of Blood
- Two: Silver and Ash
- Three: The Iron City
- Four: Oaths of Water
- References
