
An Agrarian Proposal
New England Agrarianism in Service of the Common Good
Cascade Books (Publisher)
Published on 2. December 2022
Book
Hardback
102 pages
978-1-6667-1010-6 (ISBN)
Description
An Agrarian Proposal examines how the communitarian perspectives shared among colonial New England's settlers and the farming methods they employed can be adapted to cultivate contemporary agricultural practices, policies, and ethical commitments. Together these promote sustainable farming and land stewardship, even as they valorize farming as a vital locus for cultivating virtue. In contrast to the celebration of libertarian ideals and the general distrust of government regulation characterizing the writings of many prominent modern agrarian writers who follow the tradition of Jefferson and the Southern agrarians, An Agrarian Proposal explores how faith-based commitments shared among colonial New England's settlers resulted in resource distribution and stewardship practices that created a sustainable approach to land and resource management. An Agrarian Proposal adds to contemporary considerations of the ethics and practices of agrarianism by exploring a time and place where regulation was deemed a necessary means of fostering good land stewardship and where a faith-based communitarianism challenged individualism to promote sustainable land practices by individuals farming New England's rocky and isolated fields.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
273 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-1010-6 (9781666710106)
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Rebecca Judge | Charles Taliaferro
An Agrarian Proposal
New England Agrarianism in Service of the Common Good
E-Book
12/2022
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€16.49
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Persons
Rebecca Judge is Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies and holds the Husby-Johnson Endowed Chair of Business and Economics, St. Olaf College.
Charles Taliaferro is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Professor Emeritus, St. Olaf College.