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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Agricultural Revolution"”.
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Aspects of agrarian change in south-west Lancashire
This thesis examines agricultural and agrarian developments 1650-1850 in a region - south-west Lancashire - that was increasingly dominated by industry and large urban centres. The thesis is firmly located within two distinct historiographical traditions: 'agrarian capitalism' and 'agricultural …
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The grapes of wrath : sculpture as socio-political critique in South Africa
… concerns the Joad family's move from the agricultural hinterland of America to the promised land of California. Steinbeck's intention is the sympathetic portrayal of the human cost of mechanised agricultural revolution. The story plots the collision of old value systems with new profit …
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Enlightened Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
… from the Scottish Enlightenment that influenced agricultural revolution. Practices that had been used for over hundreds of years with little change, went through a dramatic agricultural reimagining during this time period. Scottish Enlightenment “improvers,” like Henry Home, Lord Kames, …
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GroBot : an open-source model for controlled environment agriculture
… motivating the search for new paradigms for agricultural production. In this work, the GroBot is presented as an open-source model for the fourth agricultural revolution. This indoor cultivation system was fabricated to provide a replicable supply of produce, using modular parts that are …
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The Origins of German Industrialization: The Transition to Capitalism in Prussian Agriculture
… epochal transformation laid the basis for an agricultural revolution which propelled Prussia’s, and then Germany’s, later prosperity.</p>
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If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
… a long history shaped by white supremacy and agricultural transformation, as well as local relationships and national developments. It begins in 1901, the year that the newly-passed Alabama constitution took the ballot away from nearly every African American in the state, and ends in 2000, …
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An Economic Geography of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland, c.1760–1840
… entirely absent from the British Industrial Revolution literature, despite being one of the world’s first industrialising economies. This absence has been partially attributed to a paucity of statistical and systematic studies of the kind that has transformed our understanding of English …
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Agricultural change in the East Riding of Yorkshire: 1850-1880: an economic and social history
… there was significant technical progress in the agricultural industry of the East Riding in the three decades after 1850. This is attested by improved trunk and field drainage in many parts of Holderness, the Vale of York and the Hull Valley; increases in the average size of farms in some of the …
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
Many causes have been proposed for the transition to agriculture but how can archaeologists debate rival interpretations of the record with a seat-of-your-pants theoretical methodology? Truth is a concept that has been the subject of considerable thought and analysis by philosophers for millennia …