agrarian

The books depict events from the Civil War to the present, moving among an assortment of characters from the agrarian region’s closely intertwined families.

In the nation’s earliest years, a largely agrarian society where things moved at the speed of a horse at best, each city conducted its own financial business, such as it was.

America’s transformation during the 19th century from an agrarian backwater into a global power was captained by men who engaged in maneuvers that would be completely illegal today but weren’t at the time.

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.

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