The Industrial Revolution forever changed not only economics, but society and the rythm of life. While many have promoted industry as a lofty goal and indeed it has bettered life for many people, many unrelated movements have attempted to return to an agrarian lifestyle. From the Luddites through attempts at agrarian socialism to the horrors of Democratic Kampuchea, some movements have tried to turn back the clock in a way and return to the pre-industrial state. Some, like the anarcho-primitivists, reject civilization altogether.
Your challenge is make a nation or a large group of people deindustrialize and return to an agrarian-based economy and way of life. It can be its people's own choice, by a rebel group (like Pol Pot's Cambodia) or imposed by a harsh peace treaty, like some of the proposals for post-war Germany.
Unrelated destruction by war, economical crises or natural disasters does not count. It has to be done with the specific goal of returning to a pre-industrial state.
Your challenge is make a nation or a large group of people deindustrialize and return to an agrarian-based economy and way of life. It can be its people's own choice, by a rebel group (like Pol Pot's Cambodia) or imposed by a harsh peace treaty, like some of the proposals for post-war Germany.
Unrelated destruction by war, economical crises or natural disasters does not count. It has to be done with the specific goal of returning to a pre-industrial state.