Includes The economic foundations of medieval society, The rise of a money economy, The chronology of labour services and The charters of the villeins.

Organized into four sections, the twelve chapters of Rivers of Change are concerned with prehistoric Native American societies in eastern North America and their transition from a hunting and gathering way of life to a reliance on food production. Written at different times over a decade, the chapters vary both in length and topical focus. They are joined together, however, by a number of shared “rivers of change.”

The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.

Agriculture is confronted with changing societal expectations and demands regarding its role in food production and in the countryside. Complying with these expectations and demands will require a comprehensive, far-reaching and therefore far from easy and long-lasting transition of agriculture. This books seeks to explore the seeds of this transition by describing and analysing the production of promosing novelties in relation to to the dominant regime. On a theoretical level this books aims at the integration of hitherto largely disconneted disciplines and bodies of literature.

Underground agrarian activist and artist, Lynn R. Miller, returns with his third book of insightful, incisive, probing and provocative essays in unflinching and uncompromising support of small family farms, organic husbandry, vibrant rural communities and the pursuit of right livelihood. Mixing good humor, vision, clarity and courage, this writing pushes forward beyond biography of ideas well into essays as intervention. Lynn R. Miller, is the award winning editor/publisher/founder of the international agrarian quarterly Small Farmer's Journal, as well as author of many books including Why Farm, Starting Your Farm Farmer Pirates and Dancing Cows, The Workhorse Handbook and more.

A lavishly illustrated celebration of organically grown food and a look at the land and the people who produce it. Farmer and photographer Michael Ableman takes the reader on an unprecedented photographic journey that spans five continents and investigates a tradition that is thousands of years old. 170 full-color illustrations.