Sentences with phrase «post-feudal agrarian society»

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

By the Civil War's end, the United States had begun its shift from a disjointed agrarian society to an industrialized one knit together by corporate and financial organizations as much as by democratic ones.

Acknowledging the perception that children used to be an asset in agrarian societies, Caplan looks at the data to show that even in traditional societies, «kids don't pay.»

However, at our stage of material development, there is no retreating to an agrarian society, and socialism is the only just route out of a class society.

In addition, there are words and phrases that do not easily translate from one language to another, such as idiomatic expressions, word usages from ancient agrarian societies and so on.

In agrarian societies, bad weather or invaders could quickly ruin your harvest, and so many would quickly store and save the first portion of the harvest, and then later, as the harvest became more bountiful, give of the bounty to whatever deity they worshiped.

Much of the Blue State / Red State divide is over the cultural differences between an industrial and an agrarian society.

We were a primarily agrarian society, but even early general stores were run by families.

They are not provisions for our day, but in the setting of agrarian society in the tenth century B.C. they show an admirable sense of justice, moral responsibility, and humane concern for the underprivileged.

Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.

Living in an agrarian society, most Israelites worked from sun - up to sun - down, six days a week, taking only the Sabbath (Saturday) off as a day of rest.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

The result: wheat crops that are biochemically different from the virgin wheat of agrarian society.

You won't see an agrarian society.

At a conference in Washington last week, a colleague was surprised to hear that the long summer break dates back to our agrarian society and the need for young folk to help their families bring in the crops.

Given an agrarian society with poor transportation, schools could only draw enough students to populate one - room schoolhouses.

In an effort to rapidly convert the country from a peasant agrarian society to a modern industrial one, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had pulled millions of people away from farms to build roads, canals, railroads, and steel plants.

Boys are, in many ways, better suited than girls for work in the information age but are saddled with an educational model based on an agrarian society.

In Jefferson's era, the United States was an agrarian society with large estates in the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the north.

«Our current model of schools is a legacy of a historical system, which was created to address the shift from an agrarian society to an industrial one.

South Africa, which had been an agrarian society just barely making contact with the rest of the world, became an international industrial society.

So, by the time the High Middle Ages rolled around, England was mostly an agrarian society again.

Falk, a partner with Illinois - based Focus Consulting Group, reminded the audience of (mostly) financial advisers that the concept of retirement is still relatively young — about 120 years — going back to agrarian societies when bodies gave out earlier than minds do in today's service economy, and life expectancies were far lower.

As humans began the switch from hunter / gatherers to agrarian societies they also included the domestication of wild wolves to assist them in many ways.

Isn't one of the biggest Green fallacies the belief that pre-industrial agrarian societies are usually sustainable, while industrial societies can never be sustainable?

Nepal then was 5 million living in totally agrarian society, now 25 million.

who needs nuclear when we can take the Khlima Rouge's road back to a simpler, more bucolic, agrarian society?

Did you know there was once a thriving agrarian society on that continent?

This made some sense in a rural, agrarian society where landowners might own large tracts of land.

Look at how Jefferson argued for an agrarian society, yet governed like a strong Federalist.

Not exact matches

Once societies became agrarian, land ownership became the main source of power and wealth.

So I might as well say why I find Robert Penn Warren's account of the «agrarian» critique of modern society to be superior to Wendell Berry's.

It is a test of whether republican liberty established in a remote agrarian backwater of the world in the 18th century shall prove able or willing to confront successfully the age of mass society and international revolution.

Jesus» ministry, though, began as a renewal movement within Judaism, 61 went beyond theological issues, «addressing problems endemic to agrarian, indeed all class, societies.

A good place to start is by understanding, as Crossan does, Jesus» world as an agrarian or peasant society in contrast to our modem industrial society.

«The GM Golden Rice program is ill - suited as Philippine society is primarily agrarian where the majority of the farmers are landless, thus, they need is a genuine land reform program or free distribution of land, that will fundamentally secure their food and nutrition needs,» said Vizconde.

He is one of the now numberless dropouts from urban society, part of a new agrarian movement, the «back to the land» bit that seems to be sweeping young writers.

Comparing the climate record with organized agrarian state level societies in Mexico, Kennett and Marwan looked at the rise and falls of three states — Teotihuacán from 100 BCE to 650 CE, Toltec from 900 to 1150 CE and the Aztec Empire from 1400 to 1519.

Uruguay is a lovely little country with lots of positive things going for it, it is a very liberal and peaceful society but almost exclusively agrarian.

Veterinary medicine, however, is steeped in the Agrarian world view rendering certain values and ideals that while successful in the agrarian model are not efficient in today's information driven society.

«The Oroqen's history is reflective of the vast changes that have happened across China over the last few decades, as the country has moved from a largely agrarian nation to an industrial powerhouse drawing in numerous ethnic groupings to present an image of a diverse and harmonious society.

Patterns of climate really mattered to people back in the 1600's - in fact it was often a matter of life and death due to the agrarian nature of their society.