books.google.fi - The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority....http://books.google.fi/books/about/The_New_Agrarian_Mind.html?hl=sv&id=2ii4AnrkK8IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe New Agrarian Mind