The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period

Introduction: The New Agrarians; 1: Toward a New Rural Civilization; 2: Building a Science of Rural Society; 3: Crafting a Decentralist Economics; 4: The Jeffersonian Restoration of Louis Bromfield; 5: The New Agrarianism, Southern Style; 6: The American Distributists and the Quest for Fusion; 7: God, Land, Community, and Father Luigi Ligutti; 8: The Agrarian Elegy of Wendell Berry; 9: Lessons from the Plain People