Agricultural Enlightenment - Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840

Zusatztext Agricultural Enlightenment displays the qualities of an historian in complete command of his subject thanks to a fruitful career of primary research and study of the scholarly literature. Jones shows, through his careful reconstruction of the evidence, that, in the face of roughly the same slow rates of urbanization and industrialization, agricultural growth only took place in England and Holland. Informationen zum Autor Peter M. Jones is a graduate of the University of Leeds (BA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil) and has spent nearly the whole of his career as a teacher and researcher in the History Department of the University of Birmingham. Klappentext Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment. It focuses on the second half of the eighteenth century and emphasises the role of useful knowledge in the process of agrarian change and agricultural development. Zusammenfassung Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment. It focuses on the second half of the eighteenth century and emphasises the role of useful knowledge in the process of agrarian change and agricultural development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce 2: The State and Agrarian Reform 3: Vectors and Agents of Knowledge Transmission 4: Diffusion in Practice: Emulation and Innovation 5: Technology in Agriculture 6: Agricultural Enlightenment and Agricultural Revolution 7: The Science of Agriculture 8: Nature and Environment Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Peter Jones, Peter M. Jones, Peter M. (Emeritus Professor Jones, Jones Peter M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9780198716075
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871607-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture & Related Industries, C 1700 To C 1800, Agricultural and rural economics