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

They not only chronicled how the workplace changed as the U.S. evolved from an agrarian to industrial to digital economy, but also had a hand in shaping those changes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The agrarian rebellion of the 1880s and 1890s was led by farmers at a time when literacy was far from universal and rural areas were incredibly isolated by today’s standards.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

The change South Korea has undergone is seismic: in a generation, it has gone from a war-torn agrarian society to a developed economy.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 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