Sentences with phrase «other agrarian»

Ancient Middle East peoples disrupted the climate by over grazing and other agrarian and deforestation practices.

Various archival Still photographs of farm machinery and other agrarian themes, which also became prominent subjects in his 1930s paintings, are featured as well.

In We Could Not Fail, authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss explore the premise that NASA's activity in the South precipitated and facilitated that region's transition from an economy based on cotton and other agrarian activities to a more technology - driveneconomy that improved employment opportunities for African Americans.

Not exact matches

I've also published a series of four colloquia by assyriologists and archaeologists describing how earlier, from about 2500 to perhaps 300 BC, Babylonian and other Near Eastern rulers kept their citizens free and preserved their landholdings by annulling personal and agrarian debts when they took the throne — a true «tax holiday» — or when economic or military conditions warranted a general Clean Slate.

The agrarian ideal of Jefferson and others in the early republic — the ideal of a nation of frugal independent husbandmen ready to serve at their community's call — owes much to this notion of republican virtue.

(So that's the more egalitarian — rural but not usually agrarian — America for which Dr. Pat Deneen and others want us, with some very good reasons, to have nostalgia.)

Seems to that this is just the other side of the coin for all you folks that believe that you are superior because you cling to a 5000 year old middle eastern agrarian folk myth.

American Catholicism, for example, may have developed a superior capacity for corporate success — both in business and in other large - scale organizations — by adapting the church's premodern and patriarchal ethic of solidarity to the disciplines of modern industrialization; but the Catholicism so created is hardly the same as that which the immigrants left behind, along with much of the rest of Europe's agrarian past.

«We must push for genuine agrarian reform where farmers will have control over the land, and other necessary resources for food production,» Flores added.

There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.

Dr Schneider said: «Environmental, agricultural and social policies of the Federal Government are supposed to be harmonized, but central government ministries compete against each other, and the Ministry of Environment seems to be the «weakest link» whenever it confronts the agrarian reform program.

We're still waiting for America to replace an agrarian 19th century school calendar with an information age calendar that increases learning time on a par with other countries.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

In addition to the Main Campus (Ponta Delgada), which provides a concentration of various disciplines, the other two campuses provided specialized training in agrarian sciences and oceangraphy;

[Additional references: Lucas, 1930: «The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316 and 1317»; Kershaw, 1973: «The great famine and agrarian crisis in England, 1315 - 1322» and others]

To make this vision a reality, we need comprehensive agrarian reforms that speak to the realities of small - holder farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous people, pastoralists, and other vulnerable groups.

One is a party of agrarian socialists, and the other a party serving mining capital and finance capital.

From beekeepers using the internet to fight colony collapse disorder, through crop mob and other new agrarians organizing online, to wireless soil sensors optimizing farm resources, a return to sustainable farming