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In agrarian society, cultivating the land is the primary source of wealth. Such a society may acknowledge other means of livelihood and work habits but stresses the importance of agriculture and farming. Agrarian societies have existed in various parts of the world as far back as 10,000 years ago and continue to exist today.
Some scholars suggest that agrarianism espouses the superiority of rural society to urban society and the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values. [5] It stresses the superiority of a simpler rural life in comparison to the complexity of urban life.
In meat we trust: An unexpected history of carnivore America (2013). Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. ed. The Routledge History of Rural America (2018) Robert, Joseph C. The story of tobacco in America (1949) online edition; Russell, Howard. A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming In New England (1981) online; Schafer, Joseph.
[6] [7] [8] A key quote from the "Introduction: A Statement of Principles" to their 1930 book I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition: All the articles bear in the same sense upon the book's title-subject: all tend to support a Southern way of life against what may be called the American or prevailing way; and all as much as ...
Agrarian socialism or agricultural socialism is a political ideology that promotes social ownership of agrarian and agricultural production as opposed to private ownership. [1] Agrarian socialism involves equally distributing agricultural land among collectivized peasant villages. [ 2 ]
Agrarian conflicts in colonial New York, 1711–1775 (1940) Ochiai, Akiko. Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina (2007) Robison, Dan Merritt. Bob Taylor and the agrarian revolt in Tennessee (1935) Stine, Harold E. The agrarian revolt in South Carolina;: Ben Tillman and the Farmers' Alliance (1974 ...
It gradually spread across North America and to South America and was the most important crop of Native Americans at the time of European exploration. [119] Other Mesoamerican crops include hundreds of varieties of locally domesticated squash and beans , while cocoa , also domesticated in the region, was a major crop. [ 72 ]
Rural American history is the history from colonial times to the present of rural American society, economy, and politics. [1]According to Robert P. Swierenga, "Rural history centers on the lifestyle and activities of farmers and their family patterns, farming practices, social structures, political ties, and community institutions."