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Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture (Haney Foundation Series) free ebook download

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Author(s):	Frances E. Dolan

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0812252330
Pages:	280	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today

We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even in the seventeenth century, Frances E. Dolan contends, some writers and thinkers voiced their reservations, both moral and environmental, about a philosophy of improvement that rationalized massive changes in land use, farming methods, and food production. Despite these reservations, the seventeenth century was a watershed in the formation of practices that would lead toward the industrialization of agriculture. But it was also a period of robust and inventive experimentation in what we now think of as alternative agriculture. This book approaches the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource for imagining the future of agriculture in fruitful ways. It invites both specialists and non-specialists to see and appreciate the period from the ground up.

Building on and connecting histories of food and work, literary criticism of the pastoral and georgic, histories of elite and vernacular science, and histories of reading and writing practices, among other areas of inquiry,
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