Progress and Backwardness in English Agriculture, 1500-1650
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3222022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R B Outhwaite (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 1986-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1986.tb00394.x |
| OpenAlex | W2168196205, W4248998777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 15 |
T hirsk's cautious words cited above offer an ominous warning, particularly to an author who is not an agricultural historian. However, my own work on the history of prices and, more recently, on the public consequences of famine persuades me that recent agricultural history has been over-dominated by the search for the roots of progress; that perhaps too much attention has been paid to those developments which produced increases in productive efficiency and too little to those that counteracted these tendencies. This article is offered as a brief and modest corrective. Complaint is also made that that view of the period, deriving largely from Tawney, which insists on the growth of large farms at the expense of small ones, and on enclosures and other developments which led to the extension of grass at the expense of grain acreages, obscures for us certain important realities. The argument which follows looks critically at some of the claims that have been made for progress between late medieval times and the' mid-seventeenth century; goes on to discuss certain developments which may in themselves have exerted a degree of downward pressure on arable yields in this period, thus moderating the effects of improvement; and finally offers some reservations, of a pessimistic character, about demographic behaviour in Tawney's Century
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2001 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |