Dynamics of Agricultural Change The Historical Experience

First published in 1982. Until the nineteenth-century the history of agriculture was the history of mankind but it has not perhaps received the wide attention that this importance justifies. In this study, the author reviews for the student of agricultural history successive attempts to describe and explain agricultural changes that are not specific to a limited area or a particular time. In a sense The Dynamics of Agricultural Change is a systematic historical geography of agriculture.
Some of the models the author explores have been developed within agricultural history; some, drawn from other disciplines, can be applied fruitfully to it. What is the relationship between population growth and agricultural development? Between environmental changes and those in agriculture? What was the effect of the industrial revolution? And has there been an agricultural revolution?
This book suggests to university students of economic history, historical geography and agriculture, a number of stimulating ways of interpreting and reinterpreting agricultural history.

Summary

First published in 1982. In this study, the author reviews for the student of agricultural history successive attempts to describe and explain agricultural changes that are not specific to a limited area or a particular time. This book will be of interest to students of economic history, historical geography and agriculture.

Product details

• Authors: David Grigg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.02.2021
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
• EAN: 9780367251260
• ISBN: 978-0-367-25126-0
• Pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Agriculture
• Subjects: Rudyard Kipling, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Agricultural science, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Historical Geography, combine harvester, Agricultural ecosystems, Rural transformation, agricultural revolution, Ester Boserup, marginal returns, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, English agricultural revolution, South East, Von Thiinen, Peace River, Technological Diffusion, Cereal Prices, peasant societies, Jan De Vries, Parliamentary Enclosure, population pressure, environmental impacts on farming, Farmyard manure, Wet Autumn, Standard Ocean Water, Cultural Engine, Increase Labour Inputs, Intensive Farming System, Bush Fallowing, Slicher Van Bath