Lebanon The main square of Saifi Village in Centre Ville, Beirut, LebanonLike France, villages in Lebanon are usually located in remote mountainous areas. The majority of villages in Lebanon retain th ...
United Kingdom See also: Largest village in EnglandA village in the UK is a compact settlement of houses, smaller in size than a town, and generally based on agriculture or, in some areas, mining (suc ...
South Asia A North Indian village in Rajasthan, India"The soul of India lives in its villages", declared M. K. Gandhi at the beginning of 20th century. According to the 2011 census of India, 68.84% of ...
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand (sometimes tens of thousands). Thou ...
Agrarianism is similar but not identical with the back-to-the-land movement. Agrarianism concentrates on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale th ...
Main article: List of agrarian partiesPeasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural so ...
Greece and Rome In Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle, and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, Horace, and Virgil. They all praised the virtues of ...
M. Thomas Inge defines agrarianism by the following basic tenets:Farming is the sole occupation which offers total independence and self-sufficiency.Urban life, capitalism, and technology destroy inde ...
Agrarianism has two common meanings. The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior ...
