Robert Corban
Robert Corban has now received his PhD from the Department of History at Columbia University and returned home to teach in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi. He and his better half live and work in Oxford, MS with their dog, the Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna.
Articles by Robert Corban
Anarchism, Libertarianism, or Agrarianism: The Life and Work of James C. Scott (1936-2024)
Scott was a scholar of reciprocity, collaboration, and a kind of stubborn agrarianism that is the opposite of romantic and a requisite of real, existing democracy. Let him rest in…
“I Wouldn’t Take Nothing for It”: An Appreciation of Love for the Land
“Heeding lessons from farmers who persist in place, we can embrace these virtues. Rather than give up or get out, we can dig in. Rather than go big, we can…
The Banalities of “the Birth of Modern Agriculture”: A Review of Neil Dahlstrom’s Tractor Wars
All of the biases, all of the bloodlessness, and all the banalities of Tractor Wars, I suggest, are the products of a whole way of thinking about technology, agriculture and…
Agrarianism Across the Pond: A Review of Richard Hawking’s At the Field’s Edge
For readers in North America, familiar as most of us are with the history our own agrarian tradition as well as our own “seismic shift in agriculture” from the work…