The Autobiography of Arthur Young

With Selections from his Correspondence

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ID19939015
AuthorsArthur Young (corresponding author)
EditorsMatilda Betham-Edwards
Year2012
Publication date2012-05-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAutobiography of Arthur Young (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139208048
OpenAlexW615132521
Open LibraryOL29120974M
ISBN9781139208048
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Arthur Young (1741–1820) was one of the most important agriculturalists and social commentators of the eighteenth century. The account of his journeys around France (1787–9), also published in this series, remains a vital source for understanding the conditions of rural France on the cusp of revolution. The reports produced on agriculture in the English counties when he was Secretary to the Board of Agriculture from 1793 remain valuable historical sources of farming practices at the end of the eighteenth century. In later life, under the influence of his friend William Wilberforce, he became increasingly concerned at the effects of population growth and rising prices upon the rural poor in Britain. These memoirs, published in 1898, are of 'an untiring experimentalist and dreamer of economic dreams ... a brilliant man of society and the world', and they give detail to 'a life singularly interesting and singularly sad'

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