Agricultural enlightenment : knowledge, technology, and nature, 1750-1840 / Peter M. Jones.

'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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Author: Jones, Peter, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Summary:'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.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191784293 (ebook)
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716075.001.0001