Contents -- Tables and Photographs -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 (INTRODUCTORY) AGRICULTURE AS THE PROBLEM: REPLACING THE ECONOMY IN NATURE AND IN SOCIETY -- Section 1 (Preliminary) The Missing Environmental Dimension in Social Criticism -- Locke and Marx on Our Effect on Nature -- Trying to Digest the Possibility of Our Utter Destruction -- Section 2 (Ecological and Historical) The Environmental Implications of Agriculture and the Preindustrial Phase of Their History -- The Ecology of Agriculture -- Preindustrial Environmental History -- Section 3 (Ecological and Contemporary) The Environmental Implications of Industry and Our Living Environment's Capacity for Response -- Distinguishing Among Capitalism, Modernity, and Industrialism -- The Environmental Essence of Industry -- The General Theory of Waste Processing -- The Water Cycle and Soil -- The General Significance of Biogeochemical Cycles -- Section 4 (Practical and Future-Oriented) Towards Agriculture as Our Environmental Monitor and the Centrepiece of a New Form of Polity -- Different Levels of Community -- Distinguishing Technically among Use-Values -- Local Protection of Land by Ecologically Sound Agriculture -- Socialism on a Complex Basis -- 2 (FABULAR) AGRICULTURE PRIVILEGED AND BENIGN: ENGLISH CAPITALISM IN ITS LIGHT-INDUSTRIAL PRIME -- Section 1 (Sociotheoretical) The Relevance of the English Case for Understanding the Place of Agriculture in Modern Society -- The Theory of Purely Capitalist Society -- Agriculture in the English Case -- The Historical Origins of English Agrarian Peculiarity -- Specific Roles of the Landowning Class in England -- Section 2 (Agronomic and Ecological) Classical English Farming Practices and Land Stewardship -- The Unconscious Ecological Sophistication of "High Farming" -- Land Stewardship in a Modern but Preindustrial Society.

Political Economy's Comprehension of Agricultural Improvements -- Section 3 (Legal and Institutional) The Dynastic Device of Strict Settlement -- Dynastic Ambitions Serving the Land -- The Rates of Return on Capital and on Wealth -- Section 4 (Interpretive) The Place of Agriculture in the Economy of Capitalist England -- The Position of Landowners in the Economy -- Agriculture as Accelerator then Decelerator of Industrialization -- The World Economy Turns on its Creator -- 3 (CONTEMPORARY) AGRICULTURE DISPLACED AND DISARRAYED: THE INDUSTRIALIZING (WORLD) ECONOMY AS THE ONLY PERCEIVED CONTEXT FOR HUMAN ACTIVITY IN THIS CENTURY -- Section 1 (Historico-ideological) Free Trade and the Attack on the Landed Interest in England -- Classical Political Economy and English Politics -- The Effect of Corn Law Repeal on English Agriculture -- Section 2 (Historico-economic) The Rise and Fall of an Ordered World Market in Agricultural Produce and Their Manifold Effects -- The Agricultural Explanation of the Great Depression -- The Revival of Unsophisticated Farming in the "New World" -- The Agrarian Situation in Europe -- International Economic Events and Agriculture between the Wars -- The State of World Agriculture since World War II -- Section 3 (Technical) "Solving" Agriculture's Problems by Deliberately Subsuming It under Industry -- Mechanization and Chemicalization Distinguished -- Chemical Fertilizers -- Chemical Pesticides -- Antiecology the Implicit Philosophy of Contemporary Agriculture -- Section 4 (Critical) Agriculture and the Socialist Tradition -- Eduard David on Socialism and Agriculture -- Kozo Uno on Agriculture and Socialism -- 4 (UTOPIAN) AGRICULTURAL BIOCONTEXTS FOR FUTURE PERSONS: POSSIBLE FORMS FOR COMMUNITIES SECURELY PLACED IN NATURE -- Section 1 (Philosophical) Types of Relations among Persons, Nature, and Use-Values.

The Philosophical Implications of Our Environmental Unease -- Clarifying the Human Purpose of Socialism -- Section 2 (Descriptive) Forms of the New Agriculture for Bioregions -- Several Alternative Conceptions of Farming -- The Need to Protect Sound Local Practices -- Section 3 (Exploratory) Forms of Money and the Division of Labour -- Distinguishing the Several Functions of Monies -- A New Money for a New Social Form -- Establishing and Protecting Local Agricultures -- Section 4 (Tentative) Pathways to Utopia -- Revolutions and Cultural Change -- Flexible Disengagement as a Transformative Strategy -- The Culture in Agriculture -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.