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 children, stable community life--were
threatened. This volume examines the rise of a distinctive agrarian
intellectual movement to combat these trends.
"The New Agrarian Mind," now in paperback, synthesizes the
thought of twentieth-century agrarian writers. It weaves together
discussions of major representative figures, such as Liberty Hyde
Bailey, Carle Zimmerman, and Wendell Berry, with myth-shattering
analyses of the movement's cultural diversity, intellectual
influence, and ideological complexity. Collectively labeled the New
Agrarians to distinguish them from the simpler Jeffersonianism of
the nineteenth century, they shared a coherent set of goals that
were at once socially conservative and economically radical.
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