This is not to say that the South is no longer agrarian ; ;

There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.

Has the agrarian tradition become such an addiction that the switch to urbanism is somehow dreaded or unwanted??

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

This terminology is common in many countries, and originated from the " Lex Sempronia Agraria " or " agrarian laws " of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by Tiberius Gracchus, that seized public land ( ager publicus ) used by the rich and distributed it to the poor.

This definition of agrarianism is commonly known as “ agrarian reform .”

In addition, he included the farm as a place of conservation and is considered an agrarian scholar.

He is a prominent defender of agrarian values and has an appreciation for traditional farming.

* 1952 – Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines

Sparsely populated and landlocked, the nation is overwhelmingly agrarian.

With a population that is more than 80 percent agrarian, limiting resource through the creation of parks and farming restrictions is economically devastating to a significant percentage of the rural population.

Namibia also is addressing the sensitive issue of agrarian land reform in a pragmatic manner.

An earlier agrarian procession leaded by a priest, is depicted on a Minoan vase from the end of the New-Palace period.

An agrarian procession is depicted on the " Harversters Vase " or Vase of the Winnowers ' from the last phase of the New-palace period, ( LM II ), which was found in Hagia Triada.

Involuntary unemployment does not exist in agrarian societies nor is it formally recognized to exist in underdeveloped but urban societies, such as the mega-cities of Africa and of India / Pakistan.

* April 9 – Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, which starts a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines.

The first is agrarian kingdoms.

The Polish People's Party (, abbreviated to PSL ( traditionally translated as Polish Peasants ' Party ), is a centrist, agrarian, and Christian democratic political party in Poland.

* Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, suppresses an agrarian revolt in Egypte and is made supreme commander of the Roman army in the East.

Maoism departs from conventional European-inspired Marxism in that its focus is on the agrarian countryside, rather than the industrial urban forces.

His agrarian plan had offered the worker hope of escape back to the blessed country of his childhood or of his parents ' tales, away from the Malthusian Bastile, and in support of it he was ready to give his every pence.

American politicians, for example, boasted of their agrarian or log-cabin origins, and praised the republicanism of the yeoman farmers.

To support its military campaign of counter-insurgency the colonial government embarked on agrarian reforms that stripped white settlers of many of their former protections ; for example, Africans were for the first time allowed to grow coffee, the major cash crop.

Other contributions include his early work on the economic history of Roman agrarian society ( 1891 ) and on the labour relations in Eastern Germany ( 1892 ), his analysis of the history of commercial partnerships in the Middle Ages ( 1889 ), his critique of Marxism, the discussion of the roles of idealism and materialism in the history of capitalism in his Economy and Society ( 1922 ) and his General Economic History ( 1923 ), a notable example of the kind of empirical work associated with the German Historical School.

After prayers the foetid remains of the pigs from the previous year were mixed with seeds and planted ( Scholiast on Lucian ): "" the clearest example in Greek religion of agrarian magic ," Burkert observes ( 1985 p 244 ).

Pern created an interesting example in that it is an agrarian society portrayed without organized religion.

For example, ADF forbids any form of blood sacrifice in its official rituals, because even if it were appropriate in relation to one's ancestors ( who may have lived in agrarian societies that regularly killed their own food ), it is not considered appropriate in modern society.

One modern example of a national agrarian experiment exists: the efforts of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to Cambodia's invasion and occupation by Vietnam in 1979.

These types are often combined in various ways ( for example, industrializing horticultural and agrarian societies today, such as Ghana and Brazil ) and can be usefully subdivided into more or less advanced ( e. g., simple and advanced horticultural societies ).

The state of Bihar, as an example, though being an agrarian state, does not have even one of the dozen odd agricultural research laboratories where the central government pumps in millions of dollars.

For example, in 142, because he was criticized by the lower level official Zhang Gang ( 張綱 ), he intentionally made Zhang the governor of Guanglin Commandery, at that time overrun by agrarian rebels, believing that Zhang would surely be killed by these rebels.

The 989 Peace of God ( extended in 1033 ) ruling protected noncombatants, agrarian and economic facilities, and the property of the church from war.

* November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.

It would be two years long and kill more than 300, 000 peasants by hunger and thirst, creating havoc with the predominantly semi-arid agrarian economy of the region.

Proletkult aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working class aesthetic which drew its inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backwards, agrarian Russia.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party instituted a policy known as the Down to the Countryside Movement, in which educated youths living in the urban areas were sent to live and work in agrarian areas, in order that they might better understand the role of manual agrarian labour in Chinese society.

They were in agreement that agrarian radicalism brought little returns, and with Healy practically becoming a Parnellite, they preferred to pursue a policy of conciliation with the Protestant class in order to further the acceptance of Home Rule.

Moreover, in the course of economic development, when a new type of economy displaced an old type of economy — agrarian feudalism superseded by mercantilism, in turn superseded by the Industrial revolution — the rearranged economic order of the social classes favoured the social class who controlled the technologies ( the means of production ) that made possible the change in the relations of production.

The Diggers tried ( by " levelling " real property ) to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small egalitarian rural communities.

Sometimes, citizens of countries with heavily urbanized areas have migrated to more agrarian countries in order to find jobs as farmers and such.

In order to counter concerns that international tobacco control legislation would unduly harm economies of which tobacco farming, manufacturing, and sale were an important part, the WHO cited a landmark World Bank publication entitled Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control ( CTE ), which asserted that tobacco control would not harm economies, other than a select few agrarian countries that were unusually dependent on tobacco production.

That law still retains many archaic terms and principles pertinent to a feudal social order and an agrarian economy, where land was the primary economic asset and ownership of land was the primary source of rank and status.

The Diggers were a group begun by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649 who attempted to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based upon their ideas for the creation of small egalitarian rural communities.

The Diggers tried ( by " levelling " real property ) to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small egalitarian rural communities.

In response to the conscription order, even more men deserted and joined the agrarian rebels, throwing the northern central part of the empire into a state of confusion.

Thomas O ' Donnell ( MP ) for West Kerry ( 1900 – 1918 ) was a leading agrarian reformer, and the first Member of Parliament to address the House of Commons in Westminster in the Irish language ( Gaelic ), but was called to order by the Speaker, but not without having made his mark with John Redmond's support.

Soon after, the urban centres decayed gradually giving way to the rise of feudal society and culture, agrarian economy, decentralisation of power and a new hierarchical social order.

A rival fraction whom Hildebrand calls the " agrarians " centered around the agrarian leader Richard Walther Darré, the Party " race theorist " Alfred Rosenberg and the Reichsfũhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, favored an anti-industrial and anti-urban " blood and soil " ideology, expansion at the expense of the Soviet Union in order to acquire Lebensraum, alliance with Britain and opposition to the restoration of overseas colonies as threatening German racial purity.

On one side were agrarian interests such as the United States Greenback Party that wanted to retain the bimetallic standard in order to inflate the dollar, which would allow farmers to more easily repay their debts.

Further, several legislations pertaining to agrarian reform and land tenure have been enacted by the federal and state governments, in order to ensure equitable distribution of land resources.