The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350 1850 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521465090)

This 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 reorganization of traditional botanical inputs within a new system of farming. It 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 produce in effect an economic, social and cultural history of Europe in which the focus is on the long-distance consequences of the "agricultural revolution".

Author: Mauro Ambrosoli, Ambrosoli Mauro
ISBN-10: 0521465095
ISBN-13: 9780521465090
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/09/1997
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.20d