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New Pioneers is the only book to address the back-to-the-land movement in anything other than a subjective and anecdotal fashion. Anyone who is interested in or who has experienced the movement will be fascinated by Jacob's findings. --Angus Wright This study will help elucidate the continuing movement away from the frenetic pace and products of capitalistic industrialism. --Publishers Weekly Jeff Jacob has uncovered something of tremendous importance to homesteading as a movement. . . . I wish everybody would read New Pioneers. Homesteading would gain instant credibility, and even respectability. . . . Since that is probably impossible, I'd settle for seeing every Countryside reader reading this book. --Jd Belanger This book is the work of a sociologist, and the academic conventions of this profession are readily visible, including tables, analysis, data and scholarly attention to detail. The overall effect, however, is not the boring treatise one might expect. Instead, the author delivers a lively work that is more a trade title on homesteading than a research report. This is a fascinating study of the individuals and groups who are drawn to the roots of urban civilization, complete with romantic misconceptions, hard-edged political values, escapes from the rat race, and the appeal of nature. As much as is possible with this social segment, descriptions and measurements are included, as well as individual anecdotes--sometimes humorous, sometimes grim--that put life and meaning into the search for agrarian fulfillment. --Bloomsbury Review

<p> This study will help elucidate the continuing movement away from the frenetic pace and products of capitalistic industrialism. <p>--Publishers Weekly

New Pioneers is the only book to address the back-to-the-land movement in anything other than a subjective and anecdotal fashion. Anyone who is interested in or who has experienced the movement will be fascinated by Jacob's findings. --Angus Wright

New Pioneers is the only book to address the back-to-the-land movement in anything other than a subjective and anecdotal fashion. Anyone who is interested in or who has experienced the movement will be fascinated by Jacob s findings. Angus Wright

This study will help elucidate the continuing movement away from the frenetic pace and products of capitalistic industrialism. --Publishers Weekly New Pioneers is the only book to address the back-to-the-land movement in anything other than a subjective and anecdotal fashion. Anyone who is interested in or who has experienced the movement will be fascinated by Jacob's findings. --Angus Wright Jeff Jacob has uncovered something of tremendous importance to homesteading as a movement. . . . I wish everybody would read New Pioneers. Homesteading would gain instant credibility, and even respectability. . . . Since that is probably impossible, I'd settle for seeing every Countryside reader reading this book. --Jd Belanger This book is the work of a sociologist, and the academic conventions of this profession are readily visible, including tables, analysis, data and scholarly attention to detail. The overall effect, however, is not the boring treatise one might expect. Instead, the author delivers a lively work that is more a trade title on homesteading than a research report. This is a fascinating study of the individuals and groups who are drawn to the roots of urban civilization, complete with romantic misconceptions, hard-edged political values, escapes from the rat race, and the appeal of nature. As much as is possible with this social segment, descriptions and measurements are included, as well as individual anecdotes--sometimes humorous, sometimes grim--that put life and meaning into the search for agrarian fulfillment. --Bloomsbury Review

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Jeffrey Jacob is a member of the Graduate Division of Educational Research at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has contributed to a wide variety of journals, including Rural Sociology, Futures Research Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Forum for Applied Research and Social Policy, and Community Development Journal.

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