Agricultural Enlightenment
Subtitle: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198716075
Subjects: Agriculture, europe, history; Enlightenment
Description: '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.