The essential agrarian reader the future of culture, community, and the land / [print and electronic resource] :
edited by Norman Wirzba.
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2003.
- xvii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index.
Contents: Introduction: Why Agrarianism Matters--Even to Urbanites / Norman Wirzba. PART 1: AGRARIAN PRINCIPLES AND PRIORITIES : 1. The Agrarian Standard / Wendell Berry -- 2. The Resettling of America / Brian Donahue -- 3. The Mind-Set of Agrarianism ... New and Old / Maurice Telleen -- 4. Sustainable Economic Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies / Herman E. Daly -- 5. Placing the Soul: An Agrarian Philosophical Principal / Norman Wirzba. PART 2: ASSESSING OUR SITUATION : 6. The Current State of Agriculture: Does It Have a Future? / Fred Kirschenmann -- 7. Globalization and the War against Farmers and the Land / Vandana Shiva -- 8. The Agrarian Mind: Mere Nostalgia or a Practical Necessity? / Wes Jackson -- 9. All Flesh Is Grass: A Hopeful Look at the Future of Agrarianism / Gene Logsdon -- 10. The Uses of Prophecy / David W. Orr. PART 3: PUTTING AGRARIANISM TO WORK : 11. Country and City: The Common Vision of Agrarians and New Urbanists / Benjamin E. Northrup and Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb -- 12. New Agrarians: Local Innovators / Susan Witt -- 13. The Legal and Legislative Front: The Fight Against Industrial Agriculture / Hank Graddy -- 14. Private Property Rights in Land: An Agrarian View / Eric T. Freyfogle -- 15. Going to Work / Wendell Berry.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
0813122856 (alk. paper)
2003008808
Agriculture--Economic aspects. Agriculture--Environmental aspects. Agriculture--Social aspects. Human ecology. Agriculture--Moral and ethical aspects.