Article ID: CBB390264948

“Yeotopia” Found … But? The Yeoman Ideal that Underpinned New Zealand Agricultural Practice into the Early Twenty-First Century, with American and Australian Comparisons (2019)

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This is a big-picture article based on a lifetime's cumulative research. It builds on versions of the paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Agricultural History Society in Boston in 2005 and in Springfield, Illinois, in 2010, and discusses an ideal that shaped farming and rural communities in several New World countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But this ideal lasted longer and achieved greater hegemony in New Zealand. This article tries to explain the ideal's greater importance and longevity as resulting from the close fit between New Zealand's traditional stock-raising methods and the family-farming model. It also attempts to account for the ideal's more recent demise and concludes that New Zealand is probably moving into a “post-Yeotopian era” as this small and isolated country faces big changes in international food production techniques.

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Authors & Contributors
Gisolfi, Monica R.
Marsha L. Weisiger
Christensen, Johanna
Beilin, Ruth
Julia R. S. Bursten
Woods, Rebecca J. H.
Concepts
Agriculture
Farmers
Livestock
Environment
Farms
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Great Britain
South Asia
Western states (U.S.)
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