Agriculture and Economic Growth in England 1650-1815

Introduction

Originally published in 1967, this was the first book to discuss why agricultural supply became more responsive and to provide broadly based evidence of the ways in which that responsiveness may have influenced the growth of the economy. The editor chose 7 essays, reprinted in full, to illustrate altered perspectives of agricultural change. His substantial introduction places the beginnings of a significant rise in farm output as far back as the mid-seventeenth century and concludes that agriculture played a vital but complicated role in the economy of eighteenth-century England.