agrarian

Famed for its farming, cheeses and wine, this hilly, rural countryside feels cut off from modernity: an agrarian past perfectly preserved in an uncertain present.

They not only chronicled how the workplace changed as the U.S. evolved from an agrarian to industrial to digital economy, but also had a hand in shaping those changes.

The books depict events from the Civil War to the present, moving among an assortment of characters from the agrarian region’s closely intertwined families.

In the nation’s earliest years, a largely agrarian society where things moved at the speed of a horse at best, each city conducted its own financial business, such as it was.

America’s transformation during the 19th century from an agrarian backwater into a global power was captained by men who engaged in maneuvers that would be completely illegal today but weren’t at the time.