Showing 1-10 of approximately 2867 books results for "agrarian" .
Author: Professor James C. Scott
ISBN: 0300152280
Recommended Retail Price: $35.00
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, co...
Author: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 1593760078
Recommended Retail Price: $15.95
The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American cultur...
Author: Ellen F. Davis
ISBN: 0521732239
Recommended Retail Price: $24.99
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography, social structures, ...
Author: Twelve Southerners
ISBN: 080713208X
Recommended Retail Price: $21.95
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
ISBN: 0801843863
Recommended Retail Price: $22.00
Author: Julie Guthman
ISBN: 0520240952
Recommended Retail Price: $22.95
In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portraya...
Author: Lawrence Goodwyn
ISBN: 0195024176
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today.
Author: Mr. Steve Striffler
ISBN: 0300123671
Recommended Retail Price: $19.00
Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about America’s favorite meat is not just unpleasant but a powerful indictment of our in...
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
Author: Michael Goldman
ISBN: 0300119747
Recommended Retail Price: $24.00
Examines the inner workings of the World Bank, the foundations of its global achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
ISBN: 1593760434
Recommended Retail Price: $16.95
Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are 15 essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Er...
Author: Michael Goldman
ISBN: 0300119747
Recommended Retail Price: $24.00
Examines the inner workings of the World Bank, the foundations of its global achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.
ISBN: 1593760434
Recommended Retail Price: $16.95
Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are 15 essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Er...
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