1. James A. Montmarquet,The Idea of Agrarianism: From Hunter-Gatherer to Radical Agrarian in Western Culture (Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1989), viii.
2. This is meant quite literally. The patriarchy of the feudal Middle Ages was rarely questioned by the architects of liberalism. Mary Wollstonecraft and later John Stuart Mill with Harriet Taylor represent exceptions.
3. Montmarquet,The Idea of Agrarianism, 19.
4. Marvin Harris,Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures, (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 102.
5. Ibid., 102.