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

Jones Peter M.
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198716075
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
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Oxford University Press
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554 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
22 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
282

Forfatter
Jones Peter M.

Biographical note

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.

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

Jones Peter M.
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Jones Peter M.
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This book provides a welcome overview of many aspects of this debate and opens up stimulating broader frames of reference and comparative discussion.

Kate Tiller, History

[A]n important new book....this major contribution to our understanding of the history of both ideas and economic development casts welcome light on a number of related themes, ranging from the role of technology to attitudes about the natural environment.

Neil Davidson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

This is a cautious, measured and highly informative book. It argues effectively against easy generalization and the necessity for understanding how knowledge travels.

Paul Warde (University of Cambridge), European History Quarterly, Vol. 47

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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.

H-France

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. As such it invites economic historians to respond to the challenge issued by Joel Mokyr to look beyond quantitative data and to take seriously the argument that cultural factors, broadly understood, may have aided or hindered the evolution of agriculture in the early modern period ('what people knew and believed' had a direct bearing on their economic behaviour [Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy]). Evidence in support of the idea that a readily accessible supply of agricultural knowledge helps to explain the trajectory of the rural economy is drawn from all of the countries of Europe. The book includes two cases studies of rapid rural modernization in Scotland and Denmark where Agricultural Enlightenment was swiftly followed by full-scale Agricultural Revolution.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
Les mer
Provides a fuller understanding of the character and functioning of the pre-modern 'organic' economy Assesses the role of government and the State in the pre-modern agricultural sector Recovers a dimension of Enlightenment thought and practice which has been largely overlooked Explores the diffusion and adoption of agricultural knowledge in the eighteenth century Offers an analysis based on evidence drawn from all over Europe of the process of transferring skill and 'know how' in the agricultural sector and how it was successfully achieved
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Provides a fuller understanding of the character and functioning of the pre-modern 'organic' economy Assesses the role of government and the State in the pre-modern agricultural sector Recovers a dimension of Enlightenment thought and practice which has been largely overlooked Explores the diffusion and adoption of agricultural knowledge in the eighteenth century Offers an analysis based on evidence drawn from all over Europe of the process of transferring skill and 'know how' in the agricultural sector and how it was successfully achieved
Les mer

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This book provides a welcome overview of many aspects of this debate and opens up stimulating broader frames of reference and comparative discussion.

Kate Tiller, History

[A]n important new book....this major contribution to our understanding of the history of both ideas and economic development casts welcome light on a number of related themes, ranging from the role of technology to attitudes about the natural environment.

Neil Davidson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

This is a cautious, measured and highly informative book. It argues effectively against easy generalization and the necessity for understanding how knowledge travels.

Paul Warde (University of Cambridge), European History Quarterly, Vol. 47

Se alle

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.

H-France

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. As such it invites economic historians to respond to the challenge issued by Joel Mokyr to look beyond quantitative data and to take seriously the argument that cultural factors, broadly understood, may have aided or hindered the evolution of agriculture in the early modern period ('what people knew and believed' had a direct bearing on their economic behaviour [Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy]). Evidence in support of the idea that a readily accessible supply of agricultural knowledge helps to explain the trajectory of the rural economy is drawn from all of the countries of Europe. The book includes two cases studies of rapid rural modernization in Scotland and Denmark where Agricultural Enlightenment was swiftly followed by full-scale Agricultural Revolution.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
Les mer
Provides a fuller understanding of the character and functioning of the pre-modern 'organic' economy Assesses the role of government and the State in the pre-modern agricultural sector Recovers a dimension of Enlightenment thought and practice which has been largely overlooked Explores the diffusion and adoption of agricultural knowledge in the eighteenth century Offers an analysis based on evidence drawn from all over Europe of the process of transferring skill and 'know how' in the agricultural sector and how it was successfully achieved
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Provides a fuller understanding of the character and functioning of the pre-modern 'organic' economy Assesses the role of government and the State in the pre-modern agricultural sector Recovers a dimension of Enlightenment thought and practice which has been largely overlooked Explores the diffusion and adoption of agricultural knowledge in the eighteenth century Offers an analysis based on evidence drawn from all over Europe of the process of transferring skill and 'know how' in the agricultural sector and how it was successfully achieved
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198716075
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
554 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
282

Forfatter
Jones Peter M.

Biographical note

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.

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