An edition of The wild and the sown (1997)

Wild and the Sown

Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850

Wild and the Sown
Mauro Ambrosoli, Mauro Ambroso ...
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An edition of The wild and the sown (1997)

Wild and the Sown

Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850

This book describes the spread of new agricultural practice between 1350 and 1850, and reconstructs a neglected part of Europe's agricultural past: the introduction of fodder crops, and the continuous reorganisation of traditional botanical inputs within a new system of farming.

New agricultural systems, based on convertible husbandry, clovers, turnips and other roots, were introduced to some areas of Europe from the 1550s, and gave new impetus to productivity. This so-called 'agricultural revolution' involved a learning process in which recourse to ancient and medieval botany helped farmers and the more learned landowners to overcome a situation of stalemate in early modern technology.

The book breaks entirely new ground by showing the distant historical origins of a major transformation in land potential and farm productivity. A vast range of evidence is cited from Italy, France, England and elsewhere to produce in effect an economic, social and cultural history of European agrarian development in which the focus is on the long-distance consequences of the 'agricultural revolution'.

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English
Pages
504

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Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: The wild and the sown
The wild and the sown: botany and agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850
1997, Cambridge University Press
in English

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SB87.E8 A5313 1997

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504
Weight
0.640

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OL34416269M
ISBN 13
9780521108812

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