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Presents an account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. This book situates Thoreau within a long tradition of ethical thinking in the West, from the ancients to the Romantics. It shows Thoreau grappling with important ethical questions that agitated his own society and discusses his value for those seeking to understand the ethical issues.

Shows us the undeniable realities of mass migration to which we have turned a blind eye: how it has driven down workers' wages and driven up inequality; how it has fostered unsafe working conditions; and how it has stalled our economic maturity by keeping us ever-focused on increasing consumption.