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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"agrarianism"”.
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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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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… I describe an identity, which I call 'German agrarianism,' and contend that this rural self-image migrated to the Midwest when German farmers moved westward. German agrarianism had several important features including the association of morality with family-based production practices, an …
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Agricultural approaches to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets.
… politics through these works and how his agrarianism intersects with a Christian understanding of time, martyrdom, and Incarnation. Chapter two examines how Eliot performs his pro-agrarian politics in Murder in the Cathedral through the agricultural imaginary of the Women of Canterbury. I …
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Feminism from the farm: rural and farm women’s authorship and the future of rural America, 1920-1929
… the history of the republic. While the idea of agrarianism held up rural people, especially farmers, as ideal in the American imaginary, post-World War I economic uncertainties and material realities generated a shift in how the public talked about its rural and farm people. The chapters in this …
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County Cork: the experience of members of the establishment whose houses were burned in the IRA arson campaign, 1920-23
… of house owners to the British government and agrarianism. The geographical distribution of these burnings is also provided to reveal how active individual IRA brigades were that operated within the county. Though there were few areas of the county left unaffected by the occurrence of arson …
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Finite Earth Visionaries: Economics, Time and Environmental Crisis in the United States, c.1945-1980
… a distant condition of global, egalitarian agrarianism. While these theorists framed their work as responses to ecological necessity, they each brought their own political commitments and desires to bear on their visions of the future. In the early 1970s, the urgency of creating a collective …
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When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing
… in academia and in the "real" world. The "new agrarianism" that now infuses America's popular culture has brought organic farming, the slow food movement, and farmer's markets to the forefront of the nation's discourse. Despite the foregrounding of farming and food as central to the …
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Populism and the Democracy of Producers in the United States, 1877-1925
… individualism that characterised American agrarianism before. Some of the most celebrated works of American historiography have been produced on this movement. Often enough however, its intellectual roots have been neglected in favour of purely organisational, cultural, religious, or …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… food quality, egalitarianism, and agrarianism (Constance, Renard, and Rivera-Ferre; 2014). However, AAMs have been critiqued for disproportionately representing upper- to middle-class white cultural norms (Allen, 2004; Guthman, 2008a; Slocum, 2007), for romanticized agrarian …
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A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia
… of empire building, racism and the movement from agrarianism to industrialisation. The characters are drawn from my own experiences and, as such, validate both the creative work and give the exegesis substance. Jeanie Bayona is an Aboriginal woman who was raised, from infancy, by an Anglo family …
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Enslaved People's Environmental Thought in the Antebellum American South
… their environments. From transcendentalism to agrarianism, American ideas about ecological interaction reflected the importance of the environment in human life. Historians, however, have usually written about the emergence of environmental thinking with sole reference to white thinkers. But …
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Imagining membership and its obligations : the voice of John Ruskin in Wendell Berry's fiction.
This study explores the ways in which John Ruskin's artistic and social criticism illuminate persuasive elements in Wendell Berry's fiction, primarily his three major novels: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber Crow. By attending to Ruskin's voice, readers of Berry learn how ethical …