The agricultural revolution reconsidered

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

1996

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Cambridge University Press

This chapter returns to the theme of Chapter One. It re-emphasises the case for an ‘agricultural revolution’, or rather an ‘agrarian revolution’ consisting of two related transformations; first a transformation in output and productivity, and second, a transformation in the institutional framework of farming. The chapter concludes with an exploration of some ideas about the driving forces behind these agrarian changes; first in terms of responses to market prices, and second through the social relations of production embodied in agrarian capitalism. Before that, however, the first part of the chapter returns to the question of regional variety in farming discussed in Chapter Two, following a brief comparison of farming in the mid-nineteenth century with farming in the early sixteenth century.

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