Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840

Oxford University Press UK (2016)
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Agricultural Enlightenment explores the economic underpinnings of the Enlightenment to argue the case that the expansion of the so-called knowledge economy in the second half of the eighteenth century powerfully influenced governments and all those who worked in agriculture, or who sought to derive profit from the productive use of the land.

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