The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

The New Agrarian Mind synthesies the thought of twentieth-century agrarian writers. It weaves together discussions of major representative figures, such as Liberty Hyde Bailey, Carle Zimmerman, and Wendell Berry, with myth-shattering analyses of the movements cultural diversity, intellectual influence, and ideological complexity. Collectively labeled the New Agrarians to distinguish them from the simpler Jeffersonianism of the nineteenth century, they shared a coherent set of goals that were at once socially conservative and economically radical.Allan C. Carlson is the author of 'The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America', published 2004 under ISBN 9780765805904 and ISBN 0765805901.