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

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

Through these depictions, the show tries to tell the histories of the nomadic, tribal and agrarian communities for whom resilient survival was the leitmotif and cloth a way of narrating their marginalised experiences.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

Rooted in agrarian traditions, the term originates from the Old French glener and the Latin glennare, meaning "to gather."

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

I am too young to understand Pol Pot’s strategies for creating a classless pure agrarian society.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung