agrarian

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This framework also helps explain why agrarian societies, which normally benefit from living spread out, sometimes gathered in cities despite the financial and social costs.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The change South Korea has undergone is seismic: in a generation, it has gone from a war-torn agrarian society to a developed economy.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

The issue was agrarian versus commercial sources of wealth.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis