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The Autobiography of Arthur Young - With Selections from his Correspondence (Paperback)
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The Autobiography of Arthur Young - With Selections from his Correspondence (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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Arthur Young (1741-1820) was one of the most important
agriculturalists and social commentators of the eighteenth century.
The account of his journeys around France (1787-9), also published
in this series, remains a vital source for understanding the
conditions of rural France on the cusp of revolution. The reports
produced on agriculture in the English counties when he was
Secretary to the Board of Agriculture from 1793 remain valuable
historical sources of farming practices at the end of the
eighteenth century. In later life, under the influence of his
friend William Wilberforce, he became increasingly concerned at the
effects of population growth and rising prices upon the rural poor
in Britain. These memoirs, published in 1898, are of 'an untiring
experimentalist and dreamer of economic dreams ... a brilliant man
of society and the world', and they give detail to 'a life
singularly interesting and singularly sad'.
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