1st Edition

The Agricultural Revolution

By Eric Kerridge Copyright 2006
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth andnineteenth.

Preface

1. Introductory

2. The Farming Counties of England

3. Up and Down Husbandry

4. Fen Drainage

5. Fertilizers

6. Floating the Watermeadows

7. New Crops

8. New Systems

9. New Stock

10. The Fruits of Enterprise

Appendix A.

Addional references to Midland Common-field Farms

Appendix B.

Addtional References to Midland Up-and-Down Farms

Glossary

Biography

Eric Kerridge, University College of North Wales