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Agricultural Enlightenment
Peter M. Jones
其他書名
Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2016-01-07
主題
History / Europe / Western
History / Europe / General
History / Modern / General
Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness
History / Social History
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
ISBN
0191025151
9780191025150
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Jv3VCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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. As such it invites economic historians to respond to the challenge issued by Joel Mokyr to look beyond quantitative data and to take seriously the argument that cultural factors, broadly understood, may have aided or hindered the evolution of agriculture in the early modern period ('what people knew and believed' had a direct bearing on their economic behaviour [Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy]). Evidence in support of the idea that a readily accessible supply of agricultural knowledge helps to explain the trajectory of the rural economy is drawn from all of the countries of Europe. The book includes two cases studies of rapid rural modernization in Scotland and Denmark where Agricultural Enlightenment was swiftly followed by full-scale Agricultural Revolution.