The new farming methods that so radically changed English
agriculture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were
not adopted immediately by all farmers. The rate of improvement was
uneven, not only between one farmer and another, but between
different farming regions. This book suggests an approach to the
problem of regional agricultural change and the factors which
determined the different rates of change. Dr Grigg begins by
describing the differences between the agricultural regions of
South Lincolnshire - that is the two parts of Kesteven and Holland,
an area fairly typical of eastern England - at the end of the
eighteenth century. These were differences not only of land use and
soil type but of landownership and farm size, productivity and
location. The diffusion and adoption of new methods in each region
is considered against the general economic background of the late
eighteenth century and the boom conditions of the period of the
Napoleonic Wars. The later part of the book traces the rate of
farming improvement in the less favourable price conditions after
1815, and finds a marked contrast between this period and the
preceding forty years. The way in which the agricultural geography
of the area was changed by the new methods is discussed, and in
addition Dr Grigg shows how the conditions of each agricultural
region affected farmers' response to the new methods.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Economic History |
| Release date: |
April 2009 |
| First published: |
November 2008 |
| Authors: |
David Grigg
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
236 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-10615-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
The environment >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-521-10615-X |
| Barcode: |
9780521106153 |
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