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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Agrarianism
		The name "agrarian" is properly applied to figures from Horace and Virgil through Thomas Jefferson, Transcendentals like Emerson and Thoreau, the Southern Agrarians movement of the 1920s and 1930s (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians) and present-day authors Wendell Berry, Allan Carlson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Michael Bunker.
		Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants, or farming leads to a fuller and happier life.
		The agrarian philosophy is not to get people to reject progress, but rather to concentrate on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living--even when this shift involves questioning the "progressive" character of some recent social and economic developments.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Agrarianism (1401 words)

	Agrarianism Encyclopedia
		Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants, or farming leads to a fuller and happier life.
		The agrarian philosophy is not to get people to reject progress, but rather to concentrate on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living--even when this shift involves questioning the "progressive" character of some recent social and economic developments.
		The name "agrarian" is properly applied to figures from Horace and Virgil through Thomas Jefferson, Transcendentals like Emerson and Thoreau, the Southern Agrarians movement of the 1920s and 1930s (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians) and present-day authors Wendell Berry, Allan Carlson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Michael Bunker.
	hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Agrarianism.html (814 words)

	Agrarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agrarianism is not identical with the back to the earth movement, but it can be helpful to think of it in those terms.
		The agrarian philosophy is not to get people to reject progress, but rather to concentrate on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living--even when this shift involves questioning the "progressive" character of some recent social and economic developments.
		The name "agrarian" is properly applied to figures from Horace and Virgil through Thomas Jefferson, Transcendentals like Emerson and Thoreau, the Southern Agrarians movement of the 1920s and 1930s (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians) and present-day authors Wendell Berry, Allan Carlson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Michael Bunker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agrarianism (467 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Agrarianism
		agrarian generally, imply theories and movements intended to benefit the poorer classes of society by dealing in some way with the ownership of land or the legal obligations of the cultivators.
		agrarian reform are those of Solon in Attica and of the Gracchi in Italy.
		The release of debtor-slaves and the removal of unlawful enclosures seem the main features of Solon's economic legislation, of which indeed full trustworthy details are wanting.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01226a.htm (2112 words)

	Agrarianism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agrarianism is not identical with the back to the earth movement, but it can be helpful to think of it in those terms.
		The agrarian philosophy is not to get people to reject progress, but rather to concentrate on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of limited economic and political scale, and simple living--even when this involves questioning the "progressive" character of some recent social and economic developments.
		The name "agrarian" is properly applied to figures from Horace and Virgil through Thomas Jefferson, Transcendentals like Emerson and Thoreau, the Southern Agrarians movement of the 1920s and 1930s (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians) and present-day authors Wendell Berry, Alan Carlson, and Victor Davis Hanson.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Agrarianism (359 words)

	Cumberland Books: Thoughts on Simple Living
		Agrarianism didn't used to be a little-known philosophy, it was once a way of life—in fact, it was once the way of life.
		It may be that a fusion of agrarianism and urbanism lies ahead of us, one that takes the best of each and leaves the rest behind.
		The independence, the contentment, the relaxed pace, and the family-centeredness of agrarian life are all directly opposed to the regimentation, the consumerism, the time-is-money attitude and the individualism it takes to make an industrial society run efficiently, and so industrialists needed it abandoned.
	cumberlandbooks.com /agrarianism.php (875 words)

	The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought, by Paul V. Murphy. Introduction.
		But the Agrarians were also shaped by the modernist trends in European and American thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--by the Darwinism, relativism, naturalism, and empiricism that had shaken all orthodoxies about God, history, and human nature.
		In some ways, the Agrarians sought to preserve the values and structure of Victorian society, as it was known in the South prior to the 1920s, from the solvent of modernist culture.
		Agrarianism, Simpson pointedly declared, "although it has been widely misinterpreted as a political movement--a misunderstanding promoted by the Agrarians' own misinterpretation of their basic motives--was a literary movement."[14] C. Hugh Holman characterized Agrarianism as a "mythic embodiment" of such values as individual integrity, a religious and moral view of life, and family.[15]
	www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/chapters/murphy_rebuke.html (3223 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants, or farming leads to a fuller and happier life.
		Agrarianism is not identical with the back to the land movement, but it can be helpful to think of it in those terms.
		The name "agrarian" is properly applied to figures from Horace and Virgil through Thomas Jefferson, Transcendentals like Emerson and Thoreau, the Southern Agrarians movement of the 1920s and 1930s (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians) and present-day authors Wendell Berry, Gene Logsdon, Allan Carlson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Michael Bunker.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=agrarianism (551 words)

	The Agrarian Standard \| Wendell Berry \| Orion
		Agrarian farmers know that their very identity depends on their willingness to receive gratefully, use responsibly, and hand down intact an inheritance, both natural and cultural, from the past.
		Agrarians value land because somewhere back in the history of their consciousness is the memory of being landless.
		Agrarianism seems to be losing ground against industrial agriculture, but it remains the only land use practice that is both viable in the long-term and democratic.
	www.oriononline.org /pages/om/02-3om/Berry.html (2491 words)

	The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought, by Paul V. Murphy. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the Agrarians were also shaped by the modernist trends in European and American thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--by the Darwinism, relativism, naturalism, and empiricism that had shaken all orthodoxies about God, history, and human nature.
		In 1930, agrarianism as an economic program was at the heart of the Agrarian movement; by the 1950s, practical agrarianism had been displaced from this position.
		Agrarianism, Simpson pointedly declared, "although it has been widely misinterpreted as a political movement--a misunderstanding promoted by the Agrarians' own misinterpretation of their basic motives--was a literary movement."[14] C. Hugh Holman characterized Agrarianism as a "mythic embodiment" of such values as individual integrity, a religious and moral view of life, and family.[15]
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/murphy_rebuke.html (3223 words)

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		For all of the literary acclaim Berry has garnered, his agrarianism is widely dismissed as unrealistic and nostalgic, and from a feminist perspective, limited by its paternalistic logic and confining understanding of gender roles and relations.
		Berry’s agrarian ideal, however, differs from the conventional notion of agrarianism as he understands the life of the farmer to be directly connected to the ecological health of the land being farmed.
		Fink echoes the doubts of numerous feminist theorists regarding the socially-just viability of a renewed agrarian culture when she criticizes Berry for gendering his agrarianism, casting men as the major actors on the farm and tying his agrarian vision directly to the institution of marriage and women’s fertility.
	www.plu.edu /~sustain/doc/wberry.doc (7442 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.02.11
		Hanson's central thesis is that the agrarian culture of Greece from the seventh to the fourth century BC is completely responsible for the political, economic, and social systems of that era.
		The agrarian governments of the seventh and sixth centuries were broad-based timocracies of middling farmers, preserved by law and idealized in philosophical writings.
		Given the agrarian character of the polis, and the general distrust of farmers for the sea, the majority of Greek farming communities was suspicious of extensive organized navies in the seventh and sixth centuries.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.02.11.html (3494 words)

	The Agrarian Standard \| Wendell Berry \| Orion magazine
		We agrarians are involved in a hard, long, momentous contest, in which we are so far, and by a considerable margin, the losers.
		Agrarian farmers know that their very identity depends on their willingness to receive gratefully, use responsibly, and hand down intact an inheritance, both natural and cultural, from the past.
		Agrarians value land because somewhere back in the history of their consciousness is the memory of being landless.
	www.orionmagazine.org /index.php/articles/article/115 (2432 words)

	The Land Institute - Agrarianism in the 21st century
		Agrarianism lost its natural habitat, which is tough on more than owls and pussycats.
		If the mindset of agrarianism is to be limited to ruralists, farming and gardening on the margins and in the niches, it does have a grim and limited future.
		Agrarianism in today's world is a fairly loose garment, especially as so many of us live in places where you can't even pull weeds.
	www.landinstitute.org /vnews/display.v/ART/2002/07/02/3d1a65f35a669 (727 words)

	Monroe County GA Agrarian--Agrarianism: The Antidote for Industrialism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the story illustrates, the agrarian does not have to wait until retirement to enjoy the blessings of his spouse, children, friends, and neighbors--in other words, all of the relationships that are important and that give meaning to life.
		The industrialized nation must be sustained with the weakening of agrarian communities and small towns by displacing men and women from their roots and by putting them to work in the nation's factories, offices, or military.
		Agrarianism recognizes the importance of a culture, of stability, and of permanence.
	www.smarrpublishers.com /agrarian01-07.html (2269 words)

	Agrarianism.com
		The most eloquent were the Southern Agrarians, who mounted a brilliant but futile defense against the rise of the modern, commercialized New South in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Agrarianism foundered on the rocks of economic change: Over the last century it became impossible for large numbers of people to make a decent living by farming.
		For the first time in a century it is possible for large numbers of people to leave the cities and suburbs to live and work in the countryside.
	www.baconsrebellion.com /Issues/07-29-02/Agrarianism.com.htm (868 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.2.11
		Hanson's central thesis is that the agrarian culture of Greece from the seventh to the fourth century BC is completely responsibl e for the political, economic, and social systems of that era.
		The agrarian governments of the seventh and s ixth centuries were broad-based timocracies of middling farmers, preserved by law and idealized in philosophical writings.
		Given the agrarian character of the polis, and the general distrust of farmers for the sea, the majority of Greek farming communities was suspicious of extensive organized navies in the seventh and sixth centuries.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/BMCR-L/Mirror/1996/96.02.11.html (3480 words)

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		Agrarianism is as old as Virgil and Horace, and was advocated by Emerson and Jefferson.
		Agrarians believe that cultivation of the soil provides direct contact with nature, through which the agrarian is blessed with a closer relationship to God.
		Agrarians intensify this linkage with the ideal of permanence, which is central to their concept of community.
	www.agweb.com /news_printer.asp?articleID=125849 (1253 words)

	FCIV - Agrarianism and Nature
		There is another meaning of agrarianism that I will not address: dictionaries sometimes define the word as a movement for the equitable distribution of land, for agrarian reform.
		Despite the fact that agriculture in America has seldom measured up to the agrarian ideal of Thomas Jefferson, the ideal has had an important effect, and sometimes in areas that are well removed from actual life of farming and in ways that Jefferson could not have predicted.
		Bailey was an agrarian, in other words, one who put a special value on the rural life and on its preservation, who saw that project as part of the conservation movement, and out of that same agrarianism he drew a new, more spiritual and moral approach to using the land.
	www.floydcountyinview.com /agrarianism.html (6208 words)

	All Saints Church
		In my more complicated definition, I wrote, Agrarianism is a mindset and a desire, a way of looking at the world and a longing to live after it.
		Agrarianism doesn't solely concern living in the country, but the lifestyle and values peculiar to the country.
		That's one place agrarianism is being expressed very loudly, in the new "clean food" movement that rejects industrialized, processed food in favour of whole, fresh, locally grown food.
	allsaintsamarillo.org /articles/article.php?id=139 (1734 words)

	The New Agrarian :: The Eightfold Agrarian Way
		Agrarians have few models but the past, and the past is valuable for the lessons it teaches, but each of us must live in the present and plan for the future.
		A New Agrarian sees human life as a part of nature and believes that human and natural processes should be integrated.
		A New Agrarian strives to integrate the economic and spiritual aspects of his or her life.
	www.newagrarian.com /newagrarian/eightfold/index.html (584 words)

	Agrarianism.com
		Agrarianism, and the communities and culture it fosters, foundered because of the economic realities of the twentieth century.
		Agrarians believe that the best society is one composed largely of farmers who work their own land, local tradesmen and independent artisans, bound together in stable, harmonious communities in which citizens know one another as persons, not just roles.
		Today, as we adjust to the post-modern global economy, new voices (most recently at a UVA conference in April) are again pleading for a reconsideration of the agrarian alternative.
	www.virginiainstitute.org /viewpoint/2002_15.html (1039 words)

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