Oxford Reference Search Results

agrarianism   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)

... Agrarian societies are those that combine horticulture and animal husbandry in systems of farming. Agrarianism also refers to the romanticization of the rural farm as the ideal place for family life. See also rural sociology...

agrarianism   Reference library

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

... , loosely termed ‘back to the land’, was a defining characteristic of popular radicalism. Some agrarians, like Thomas *Spence , called for the abolition of private property, while others desired a restored peasantry. Common to all was a belief in the viability of small-scale agricultural enterprise, and in the right of universal equal access to the *land [16] . Agrarianism derived from an awareness of how inequalities in landholding, which *enclosure was extending, reinforced all other inequalities. In this sense virtually all British radical...

Agrarianism   Reference library

Nicholas Everett

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)

... A movement among men of letters in the American South of the late 1920s and 1930s to defend its traditional agricultural way of life against the industrialization and urbanization that were fast overwhelming it. The ‘Twelve Southerners’ who contributed essays to the most substantial Agrarian publication, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition ( 1930 ), were Donald * Davidson , John Gould * Fletcher , Henry Blue Kline , Lyle Lanier , Andrew Lytle , H. C. Nixon , Frank Lawrence Owsley , John Crowe * Ransom , Allen *...

Agrarianism   Reference library

Norman WIRZBA

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability

...those who were not farmers themselves lived in close, sympathetic proximity with agricultural realities and requirements. What agrarian life affords—though hardly guarantees—is the practical and intimate insight that insofar as we eat, breathe, and drink we also need to care for the geo-bio-chemical sources that feed us. To degrade, exhaust, or destroy one’s land or livestock is also to put one’s own life at risk. Agrarian life, which is not to be confused with the extractive and profiteering ethos of agribusiness, is an education that trains people in...

Religious Agrarianism   Reference library

Todd LeVasseur

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)

...religious agrarianism is emerging as part of the greening of religion. By fusing ecological agrarian values and ethics into existing religious cosmologies, religious agrarians are renewing and reinterpreting their traditions to make them relevant to modern-day sustainable food concerns. Religious agrarians find evidence and inspiration in their own traditions to engage in sustainable farming, yet they are conversant and knowledgeable about many of the same issues of concern that motivate ecological agrarians. Therefore, religious agrarianism is a mix of...

The Fugitives and Southern Agrarianism   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

...assessment of the Agrarian heritage that remains controversial. Malvasi, Mark G. The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson . Baton Rouge, La., 1997. A stimulating, often provocative comparative analysis of the three principal Fugitive-Agrarians as writers and thinkers. Murphy, Paul V. The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought . Chapel Hill, N.C., 2001. A thorough intellectual history tracing the profound influence of Agrarianism on subsequent conservative...

Agrarians   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)

... , name applied to certain Southern writers, including J.C. Ransom , J.G. Fletcher , R.P. Warren , Allen Tate , and Donald Davidson , who had championed an agrarian economy for the South and the more general movement known as Regionalism...

Agrarians   Quick reference

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

...Agrarians , name applied to certain Southern writers, including J. C. Ransom , J. G. Fletcher , R. P., Warren , Allen Tate , and Donald Davidson , who championed an agrarian economy for the South and the more general movement known as Regionalism...

agrarian   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management

... Relating to farmland and its economy, the cultivation of land or land tenure. For example, the agrarian revolution in the UK took place in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which saw significant improvements in productivity and agricultural reform. See also agriculture...

Agrarians   Quick reference

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)

... The name given to a group of writers from the Southern US states which included John Crowe Ransom , Allen Tate , and Robert Penn Warren . They expressed their resistance to urbanization and the loss of tradition in their manifesto, the 1930 collection of essays I'll Take my Stand . Several of these writers subsequently retreated from their 1930 ...

Agrarians   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)

... The name given to a group of writers from the Southern US states which included John Crowe Ransom , Allen Tate , and Robert Penn Warren . They expressed their resistance to urbanization and the loss of tradition in their manifesto, the 1930 collection of essays I'll Take my Stand . Several of these writers subsequently retreated from their 1930 position....

agrarian   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)

... Relating to agriculture or farming...

Agrarians   Reference library

J. Burt

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

...a turn sympathetic toward Agrarianism. And important southern writers of succeeding generations such as Flannery O’Connor and Wendell Berry inherited something of Agrarianism in their sensibilities. Early 21st-c. manifestations of “green” lit. and crit. also share some features—such as hostility to capitalist materialism and respect for the otherness of nature—with Agrarianism. See environment and poetry . Bibliography P. K. Conkin , The Southern Agrarians (1988) ; P. V. Murphy , The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative...

agrarian societies   Quick reference

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

... societies [Ge] Societies whose means of subsistence is based on agricultural production, crop‐growing, and the husbandry of...

Southern Agrarians   Reference library

Ted Atkinson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History

...Agrarians Agrarianism in the U.S. South was integral to the formation of regional and national ideals and identities, as evinced by Thomas Jefferson 's Notes on Virginia ( 1787 ). Influence and ethos form the connective tissue between Jefferson and the Southern Agrarians, a cohort of intellectuals emergent in the latter half of the 1920s at Vanderbilt University after The Fugitive literary magazine folded. The triumvirate of John Crowe Ransom , Allen Tate , and Donald Davidson turned from that enterprise, which involved channeling literary...

Agrarian Relations   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

... Relations , the fiscal, economic, political, and social interrelations between the owner of land and its cultivator as reflected factually in the form of rent and coercion and juridically in ownership and possession . Byz. was an agricultural society, the basis of the economy being the soil. Like Rome, Byz. attached extreme importance to the status of land and the persons who cultivated or owned land. Consequently, to understand Byz. agrarian relations is to understand both the Byz. economic system and state structure. Scholarship has tended to...

agrarian protest   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

...by the agricultural labourers and cottiers who were their employees and subtenants. Agrarian crime declined after the Famine, as population pressure eased and living standards rose. Threats, assaults, and property damage all increased sharply with the return of agrarian depression from the late 1870s; but this was in the context of a movement ( see land war ) quite different, in its level of organization, ideology, and social composition, from the agrarian secret societies of earlier decades. Clark, S. , and Donnelly, J. S. (eds.), Irish Peasants:...

agrarian parties   Quick reference

Wyn Grant

A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (4 ed.)

... parties Parties representing farmers have been a significant feature of many Western political systems, but are now declining in importance. As urbanization and industrialization reduce the share of the rural population in the electorate, agrarian parties have found it more difficult to sustain an electoral base, and a number have either faded away, or have converted themselves into parties with a more general electoral appeal. The interests of farmers may be more effectively represented by national farmers’ organizations with close links with the...