Author: James Anderson
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature
Author: James Anderson
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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The Enclosure of Knowledge
Author: James D. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316517985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316517985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.
Miller's London Librarian, and Book-buyers Gazette, Jan. 1852-Dec. 1853; Appended [1853] Fly Leaves; Or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical, and Miscellaneous
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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4 bookseller's catalogues
Author: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston Athenaeum
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Lumley's Bibliographical Advertiser
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Washington at the Plow
Author: Bruce A. Ragsdale
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426990X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Winner of the George Washington Prize A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the “respectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.” Washington at the Plow depicts the “first farmer of America” as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of Washington’s pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed Washington’s famous decision to free his slaves after his death.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426990X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Winner of the George Washington Prize A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the “respectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.” Washington at the Plow depicts the “first farmer of America” as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of Washington’s pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed Washington’s famous decision to free his slaves after his death.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Bristol Library Society
Author: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution
Author: Edwin Cannan
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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