The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

by Carlson,Allan C.

• ISBN13: 9780765805904
• ISBN10: 0765805901
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The New Agrarian Mind 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The New Agrarians	1	(6)
1. Toward a New Rural Civilization: Liberty Hyde Bailey	7	(24)
2. Building a Science of Rural Society: Carle C. Zimmerman	31	(24)
3. Crafting a Decentralist Economics: Ralph Borsodi	55	(20)
4. The Jeffersonian Restoration of Louis Bromfield	75	(24)
5. The New Agrarianism, Southern Style: Lytle, Owsley, Cauley	99	(26)
6. The American Distributists and the Quest for Fusion: Herbert Agar	125	(24)
7. God, Land, Community, and Father Luigi Ligutti	149	(28)
8. The Agrarian Elegy of Wendell Berry	177	(26)
9. Lessons from the Plain People	203	(12)
Index	215