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An agrarian society, or agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an agrarian society is by seeing how much of a nation's total production is in agriculture. In agrarian society, cultivating the land is the primary source of wealth. Such a society may ...
Opposed to the industrial society is the agrarian, which does not stand in particular need of definition. An agrarian society is hardly one that has no use at all for industries, for professional vocations, for scholars and artists, and for the life of cities.
Agricultural history took a different path from the Old World as the Americas lacked large-seeded, easily domesticated grains (such as wheat and barley) and large domestic animals that could be used for agricultural labor. Rather than the practice which developed in the Old World of sowing a field with a single crop, pre-historic American ...
The agricultural community, with its fellowship of labor and co-operation, is the model society. The farmer has a solid, stable position in the world order. They have "a sense of identity, a sense of historical and religious tradition, a feeling of belonging to a concrete family , place, and region, which are psychologically and culturally ...
The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.
Agricultural History. 38 (3). Agricultural History Society: 143– 156. JSTOR 3740434. – statistical tables showing membership in the Grange and other farm organizations by date and state and region; Woods, Thomas A. (2002). Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. Henry A Wallace Series on ...
Malvasi, Mark G. (1997), The Unregenerate South: Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate and Donald Davidson. Murphy, Paul V (2001), The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. Scotchie, Joseph, "Agrarian Valhalla: The Vanderbilt 12 and Beyond", Southern Events, archived from the original on 2006-12-29
Noboru Karashima's research of the agrarian society in South India during the Chola Empire (875–1279) reveals that during the Chola rule land was transferred and collective holding of land by a group of people slowly gave way to individual plots of land, each with their own irrigation system. [50]