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The Wild and the Sown - Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Hardcover, New)
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The Wild and the Sown - Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Past and Present Publications
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This 1997 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 reorganisation of traditional botanical inputs
within a new system of farming. New agricultural systems, based on
convertible husbandry, clovers, turnips and roots, were introduced
to some areas of Europe from the 1750s, and gave new impetus to
productivity. However this so-called 'agricultural revolution' had
demanded a learning process in which recourse to ancient and
medieval botany helped farmers and scholars 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 provide a history of the 'agricultural revolution' in
Europe.
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