G.E. Fussell
Author: Museum of English Rural Life
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Museum of English Rural Life
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Edwin Fussell
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780838610909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive account of the nature and development of farming practices from Greek and Roman times to the mid-19th century describes how each generation of farmers based their methods on the spoken word of former centuries.
Author: Peter D. McClelland
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801433269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial question was first directed persistently, pervasively, and systematically to farming practices: Is there a better way? McClelland surveys practices from crop rotation to livestock breeding, with a particular focus on the change in implements used to produce small grains. With wit and verve and an abundance of detail, he demonstrates that the first great surge in inventive activity in agronomy in the United States took place following the War of 1812, much of it in a fifteen-year period ending in 1830. Once questioning the status quo became the norm for producers on and off the farm, according to McClelland, the march to modernization was virtually assured. With the aid of more than 270 illustrations, many of them taken from contemporary sources, McClelland describes this stunning transformation in a manner rarely found in the agricultural literature. How primitive farming implements worked, what their defects were, and how they were initially redesigned are explained in a manner intelligible to the novice and yet offering analysis and information of special interest to the expert.
Author: Daniel A. Baugh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1400874637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and potentialities of eighteenth-century British administration. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Christine MacLeod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521893992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines contemporary criticism of the patent system in the light of the changing conceptualisation of invention among natural scientists and political economists.
Author: A. Rupert Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-09-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1350017590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
Author: Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1000941639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture. The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view. Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution', than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.
Author: Paddy Bullard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 711
ISBN-13: 1009022415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism. Providing an overview of the current scholarship in georgic literature and criticism, this collection argues that the work of people and animals in farming communities, and the land as it is understood through that work, has provided writers in English with one of their most complex and enduring themes.
Author: Neal Wood
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0520336305
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