Word: agrarian
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...they seldom reread it. Rubenstein's book offers an excellent opportunity to do just that. He is invigorating and honest in his ironies; for him, the K.K.K. and CORE share the same sort of motivation. He proceeds through the American Revolution, the Indian revolts, the Civil War, various agrarian rebellions and labor-management wars, before confronting his main topic: race riots, early and late. Rubenstein demonstrates that in each case the oppressed group's lust for independence-through integration or separatism-is so powerful, indeed biological, an urge that it will not bear indefinite frustration...
Lindsay develops his position by tracing the root of the country's urban ills back to the attitudes of the agrarian founding fathers, who viewed cities as more evil than necessary. The 19th century, he argues, further fostered the notion that national destiny lay in the virginal lands of the West rather than the vice-ridden cities of the East. By the 20th century, the idea had taken hold that cities were to be overtaxed and unrepresented. In the past three decades, Lindsay says, cities have received no significant federal funds to aid mass transit, though more than...
Womack's book is about Emiliano Zapata, a guerrilla leader and agrarian reformer of the 1910-1920 period in Mexico. Other contenders in the History and Biography category are Dean Acheson's Present at the Creation and Townsend Hoopes's The Limits of Intervention...
...called for an "agrarian philosophy" of education in which students would be like growing plants, "which are carefully nurtured, adequately fertilized, watered and given sunlight, protected from weeds, and allowed to grow into their own thing...
...believes that "the farmers were unhappily proved correct in their analysis of the 1860's-under a capitalist marketplace political economy their welfare depended upon overseas market expansion," Williams rejects economic determinism. Pleading for a reversal of the open door policy, he claims we can "give the [largely agrarian] peoples of the world a chance to make their own history by acting on our own responsibility to make our own history...