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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
OUR PRICE: $126.35  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1997
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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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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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