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The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Past and Present Publications)
The Wild and the Sown Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe 13501850 - Past and Present Publications Author:Mauro Ambrosoli 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 hi... more »storical 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".« less