{"product_id":"the-wild-and-the-sown-botany-and-agriculture-in-western-europe-1350-1850-hardback-9780521465090","title":"The Wild and the Sown; Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350–1850 (Hardback) 9780521465090","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Wild and the Sown\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBotany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350–1850\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1997 book describes the spread of new agricultural practice in the half millennium after 1350.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMauro Ambrosoli (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521465090, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 January 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages, 27 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a most original work of scholarship.\"    Eric Jones, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1997 book describes the spread of new agricultural practice in the half millennium after 1350, and reconstructs a neglected part of Europe's agricultural past: the introduction of fodder crops, and the continuous reorganisation of traditional botanical inputs within a new system of farming. New agricultural systems, based on convertible husbandry, clovers, turnips and roots, were introduced to some areas of Europe from the 1750s, and gave new impetus to productivity. However this so-called 'agricultural revolution' had demanded a learning process in which recourse to ancient and medieval botany helped farmers and scholars to overcome a situation of stalemate in early modern technology. The book breaks entirely new ground by showing the distant historical origins of a major transformation in land potential and farm productivity. A vast range of evidence is cited from Italy, France, England and elsewhere to provide a history of the 'agricultural revolution' in Europe.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword Joan Thirsk\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Translations and classification of the natural environment from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 2. From medieval agronomy to Renaissance agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lucerne in Italy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Forage crops in France: diffusion and retreat\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tradition and innovation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England\u003cbr\u003e 6. The new crops and English agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 7. From theory to seed production: England and continental Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912985764120,"sku":"9780521465090","price":110.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521465090i_79022f0d-8817-471a-96c2-62fd5a61b2b6.jpg?v=1691382549","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-wild-and-the-sown-botany-and-agriculture-in-western-europe-1350-1850-hardback-9780521465090","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}