yeomanry
noun
yeo·man·ry
ˈyō-mən-rē 
1
: the body of yeomen
specifically
: the body of small landed proprietors of the middle class
2
: a British volunteer cavalry force created from yeomen in 1761 as a home defense force and reorganized in 1907 as part of the territorial force
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Many proponents and beneficiaries of the Homestead Act envisioned yeomanry as an alternative to wage labor, but not as an escape from the market economy: corn, wheat, and other cash crops predominated from the outset.
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Binyamin Appelbaum, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
In some ways this affluent proletariat viewed itself as a kind of modern yeomanry — willing to serve the country in war, but anxious to live self-sufficiently and among equals.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
Research by Robert Allen, an economic historian at New York University Abu Dhabi, concludes that the big, capitalist estates which resulted from enclosure were not much more productive than common land farmed by the yeomanry.
—The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
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Binyamin Appelbaum, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
In some ways this affluent proletariat viewed itself as a kind of modern yeomanry — willing to serve the country in war, but anxious to live self-sufficiently and among equals.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
Research by Robert Allen, an economic historian at New York University Abu Dhabi, concludes that the big, capitalist estates which resulted from enclosure were not much more productive than common land farmed by the yeomanry.
—The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
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yeomanry
noun
yeo·man·ry
ˈyō-mən-rē
: a body of yeomen
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