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"...a most original work of scholarship." Eric Jones, American Historical Review
Book Description
This book describes the spread of new agricultural practice in the half millennium after 1350, and reconstructs a neglected part of Europe's agricultural past: the introduction of fodder crops, and the continuous reorganization of traditional botanical inputs within a new system of farming. It 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 Europe in which the focus is on the long-distance consequences of the "agricultural revolution".
The Wild and the Sown : Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Past and Present Publications)
The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Past and Present Publications),Mauro Ambrosoli,Lyndal Roper,Cambridge University Press,0521465095,Agriculture,Agriculture - General,Botany, Economic,Economic Botany,Europe,Gardening,History,History - General History,History: World,Italy,Life Sciences - Botany,Regional - General,Western Europe - General,Agriculture & Farming,Botany, Economic--Europe--History,European history: c 1500 to c 1750,History / Europe / General,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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