Peter M. Jones

Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature 1750-1840

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 emphasises the role of useful knowledge in the process of agrarian change and agricultural development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780198716075
• ISBN-10: 0198716079
• Artikelnr.: 47870418

Autorenporträt

Peter M. Jones is a graduate of the University of Leeds (BA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil) and has spent nearly the whole of his career as a teacher and researcher in the History Department of the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce
2: The State and Agrarian Reform
3: Vectors and Agents of Knowledge Transmission
4: Diffusion in Practice: Emulation and Innovation
5: Technology in Agriculture
6: Agricultural Enlightenment and Agricultural Revolution
7: The Science of Agriculture
8: Nature and Environment
Conclusion
Bibliography