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Showing 1 to 20 of 344 for “"agrarian"”.
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Agrarian Impressions
… ceramic and mixed media sculptures. As the title Agrarian Impressions implies, the stoneware sculptures are based upon memories from growing up on a self-sufficent farm. In addition to my functional work, my sculptures reference tools and machines used to aid the production and harvest of crops …
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Institutional Constraints and Bolivian Agrarian Development During the Pre-Agrarian Reform and Post-Agrarian Reform Periods
… of the land redistribution according to the agrarian reform law shows that the insecurity and restrictive nature of land tenure defined in the agrarian reform law led to reduced capital investments, extensive land use and poverty. Less restrictive property rights may be the solution to …
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William Cobbett's Agrarian Vision of National Reform
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The political economy of Nicaragua's agrarian reform
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Embedded Within Landscapes: Agrarian Philosophy and Sustainable Agriculture
Small-scale, conservation-based agrarianism provides a model for sustainable human habitation within heterogeneous landscapes. Thoreau's Transcendentalism and the historical roots of American Agrarianism are explored as influences for wilderness preservation and the New Agrarian movement. …
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Aspects of agrarian change in south-west Lancashire
This thesis examines agricultural and agrarian developments 1650-1850 in a region - south-west Lancashire - that was increasingly dominated by industry and large urban centres. The thesis is firmly located within two distinct historiographical traditions: 'agrarian capitalism' and 'agricultural …
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A critical analysis of theories of agricultural development and agrarian reform, with reference to agrarian reform policies in Chile (1962-1973).
… orientations to the study of capitalist agrarian development are discussed, both abstractly and with reference to their accounts of Latin American rural society in the 1960's. It is argued that all three are unable to explain adequately the process of social and agrarian change. This …
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Interpreting Midway Barn: Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Agrarian Vision
… Midway Barn reflects his desire to reenact the agrarian lessons learned in his youth through the Taliesin Fellowship. Viewed in this way, Midway Barn offers insight not only into the architect’s biography but also into his complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship to “rural” values, …
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The problem of scale in the Venezuelan Agrarian Reform
Research Paper (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1965
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Precision Agriculture and Its Influence on Agrarian Decision-Making
The rapid digitalization of agriculture, including the rise of Precision Agriculture (PA) tools, reshapes farming practices, knowledge systems, and decision-making processes, prompting critical questions about the values and ethics behind how these technologies are developed, deployed, and used. …
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History and Hope: The Agrarian Wisdom of Isaiah 28–35
… studies today.</p><p>History and Hope: The Agrarian Wisdom of Isaiah 28–35 examines the rhetorical function of Isa 28–35, a relatively overlooked series of six woe-oracles, in relation to the reader’s encounter with the book of Isaiah as a whole. At a diachronic level, the project seeks to …
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The evolution of agrarian economy in Gujarat, (India) 1850-1930
… PhD Dissertation is a study of the evolution of agrarian economy in Gujarat, a region distinguished by its geography and culture, and by virtue of its location on the mid-west coast of the Indian sub-continent, an emporium of urban commerce for centuries. Peopled by small peasant landowners …
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Agrarian reform and rural development : a case study of Brazil.
Finding the solution to successful agrarian reform has been one of the most polemic topics facing the developing world, not to mention one of the major issues that the World Bank has been tasked with helping resolve. In the early 1990s the World Bank started advocating the use of market-led …
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The Agrarian Myth in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Magazines
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
Most scholars have viewed property in pre-modern Ethiopia in “feudal” terms analogous to medieval Europe. According to them, Ethiopia’s past property arrangement had been in every respect archaic implying less than complete property rights, for, unlike in modern liberal societies, it vested no …
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The agrarian roots of authoritarian modernization in Brazil, 1880-1930
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1980
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Poor Relief, Agrarian Laws, and Redistribution in England, c. 1450–1601
… England, extending from poor relief, through agrarian laws, to proposals to transform propriety itself. It begins with two chapters on poor relief, identifying a common inheritance from the Bible and early church which provided a model for how poor relief developed in sixteenth-century …
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