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Ambrosoli, Mauro, Scienziati, contadini e proprietari: botanica e agricoltura nell'Europa occidentale, 1350-1850, Torí, Einaudi (Biblioteca di cultura storica, 190), 1992, xix + 468 pp. + [8] pp. de làm.
- Resum
- This book describes the spread of new agricultural practice between 1350 and 1850, 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 other roots, were introduced to some areas of Europe from the 1550s, and gave new impetus to productivity. This so-called 'agricultural revolution' involved a learning process in which recourse to ancient and medieval botany helped farmers and the more learned landowners 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 produce in effect an economic, social and cultural history of European agrarian development in which the focus is on the long-distance consequences of the 'agricultural revolution'.
Contents:
* Introduction
* 1 Translations and classification of the natural environment from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century · 15-43 = reimpr. d'Ambrosoli (1983), "L'Opus agriculturae di Palladio ..."
* 2 From medieval agronomy to Renaissance agriculture
* 3 Lucerne in Italy
* 4 Forage crops in France: diffusion and retreat
* 5 Tradition and innovation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
* 6 The new crops and English agriculture
* 7 From theory to seed production: England and continental Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
* Conclusions
- Matèries
- Agronomia
Història natural - Vegetals
- Notes
- Trad. angl.: The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850, foreword by Joan Thirsk, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xxiv + 460 pp. + [16] pp. de làm.
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=jOur0pcAFCoC&lpg=P ...
 (trad. angl.)
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