Book ID: CBB219747830

Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840 (2016)

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Jones, Peter M (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 256
Language: English

Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment. It focuses on the second half of the eighteenth century and emphasizes the role of useful knowledge in the process of agrarian change and agricultural development. As such it invites economic historians to respond to the challenge issued by Joel Mokyr to look beyond quantitative data and to take seriously the argument that cultural factors, broadly understood, may have aided or hindered the evolution of agriculture in the early modern period ("what people knew and believed" had a direct bearing on their economic behavior [Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy]). Evidence in support of the idea that a readily accessible supply of agricultural knowledge helps to explain the trajectory of the rural economy is drawn from all of the countries of Europe. The book includes two cases studies of rapid rural modernization in Scotland and Denmark where Agricultural Enlightenment was swiftly followed by full-scale Agricultural Revolution.

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Authors & Contributors
Jensen, Joan M.
Balogh, Piroska
Bărbulescu, Constantin
Luca Andreoni
Anne Marie Todd
Abele, Celia
Concepts
Rural history
Agriculture
Modernization
Chemistry
Rural development
Agricultural economics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Canada
Québec (Canada)
Italy
Germany
Ontario (Canada)
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