The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350 1850 Contributor(s): Ambrosoli, Mauro (Author), Mauro, Ambrosoli (Author), Salvatorelli, Mary (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521465095 ISBN-13: 9780521465090 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 1997 Click for more in this series: Past and Present Publications |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
Dewey: 338.173 |
LCCN: 96000300 |
Series: Past and Present Publications |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" L (1.50 lbs) 504 pages |
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Publisher Description: This 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 reorganization of traditional botanical inputs within a new system of farming. It 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 produce in effect an economic, social and cultural history of Europe in which the focus is on the long-distance consequences of the agricultural revolution. |
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