1st Edition
The New Agrarian Mind The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
By Allan C. Carlson
Copyright 2000
233 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority. The social benefits of rural life--a sense of independence, commitment to democracy, an abundance of... Read more
Introduction: The New Agrarians; 1: Toward a New Rural Civilization; 2: Building a Science of Rural Society; 3: Crafting a Decentralist Economics; 4: The Jeffersonian Restoration of Louis Bromfield; 5: The New Agrarianism, Southern Style; 6: The American Distributists and the Quest for Fusion; 7: God, Land, Community, and Father Luigi Ligutti; 8: The Agrarian Elegy of Wendell Berry; 9: Lessons from the Plain People
Biography
Allan C. Carlson
