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AGRICULTURE. The art of cultivating the earth in order to obtain from it the divers things it can produce; and particularly what is useful to man, as grain, fruit's, cotton, flax, and other things. Domat, Dr. Pub. liv. tit. 14, s. 1, n. 1. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If
this prediction comes true, it will be the first time since the late
1950s that the US will not have an annual agricultural surplus. The people of Western Europe began to evolve a
different type of society, one based not on an agricultural surplus but
on a technology that enabled them to reproduce their resources
indefinitely. While he never really
defines the word, Van Onselen means by peasantry a social class,
existing in a world of capitalist development, that used family labor
and sold part of their agricultural surplus on the colonial market. |
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