Scope and content
Research files, drafts, manuscripts, contracts, correspondence, publicity materials, printed articles and other files relating to books including Land and People of Ghana, 1963; Gaslight and Electricity: Essays on the 19th Century, 1964-65 unpublished; SDS, 1972; Power Shift, 1975; Human Scale, 1980; Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision, 1985; The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy, The Green Revolution: American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992; Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Notes for the Computer Age, 1995; The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream, 2002; Why the Sea is Salt: Poems of Love and Loss, 2001; After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination, 2006; and miscellaneous articles and lectures. Also video and audiotapes.
Photocopies of letters from Thomas Pynchon.
Dates
- 1958-2006.
Creator
- Sale, Kirkpatrick. (Person)
- Pynchon, Thomas. (Person)
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
Independent scholar and author, Kirkpatrick Sale graduated from Cornell University in 1958, and was editor of the Cornell Daily Sun. Initially a journalist, he worked for the New Leader and the New York Times magazine. He spent time in Ghana and wrote his first book about it. His second book was about Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Subsequently books explored radical decentralism, bioregionalism, environmentalism, and the Luddites. He has continued to write for publications including The Nation, CounterPunch, The New York Review of Books, the Utne Reader, and Mother Jones. Since 2005, he has directed the Middlebury Institute which is dedicated to the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.
Extent
17.1 cubic feet. (17.1 cubic feet.)
- America -- Discovery and exploration -- British.
- America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
- Columbus, Christopher -- : Influence.
- Computers -- Social aspects.
- Decentralization in government -- United States.
- Ecology -- Philosophy.
- Environmental archaeology.
- Environmental policy -- United States.
- Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
- Green movement.
- Industrial revolution -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
- Luddites.
- Marine engineers -- United States -- Biography.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
- Paleoanthropology.
- Radicalism -- United States.
- Riots -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Science -- Social aspects.
- Steamboats -- History.
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) -- : History.
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Technology and civilization.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Working class -- England -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century.
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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