The Leicestershire Farmer in the Seventeenth Century

Hoskins, W. G.

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“…By 1400-49, almost 20% of the demesne in England was planted with legumes. The new pattern was first glimpsed by Hoskins (1950Hoskins ( , 1951 in his study of Leicestershire inventories.…”

Section: Early Modern Revolution: Peas and Beansmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis

Allen¹

2008

J. Econ. Hist.

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A biological model of nitrogen in agriculture is specified for early modern England and used to analyze the growth in grain yields from the middle ages to the industrial revolution. Nitrogen-fixing plants accounted for about half of the rise in yields; the rest came from better cultivation, seeds, and drainage. The model highlights the slow chemical reactions that governed the release of the nitrogen introduced by convertible husbandry and the cultivation of legumes. However efficient were England's institutions, nitrogen's chemistry implied that the English agricultural revolution would be much more gradual than the Green Revolution of the twentieth century.

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“…By 1400-49, almost 20% of the demesne in England was planted with legumes. The new pattern was first glimpsed by Hoskins (1950Hoskins ( , 1951 in his study of Leicestershire inventories.…”

Section: Early Modern Revolution: Peas and Beansmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis

Allen¹

2008

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…While we cannot perform sophisticated tests on fifteenth century England, there is considerable evidence that small scale farmers were agricultural innovators. Cropping patterns can be reconstructed from probate inventories, and they show that peas and beans were adopted on a wide scale in the open fields by small scale farmers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Hoskins 1950(Hoskins , 1963. If farmers were innovative producers, why would we assume that they were not thrifty and forward looking?…”

Section: The Poor In the Later Middle Ages Did Not Exemplify Middle Cmentioning

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A Review of Gregory Clark'sA Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

Allen

2008

Journal of Economic Literature

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A Farewell to Alms advances striking claims about the economic history of the world. These include (1) the preindustrial world was in a Malthusian preventive check equilibrium, (2) living standards were unchanging and above subsistence for the last 100,000 years, (3) bad institutions were not the cause of economic backwardness, (4) successful economic growth was due to the spread of “middle class” values from the elite to the rest of society for “biological” reasons, (5) workers were the big gainers in the British Industrial Revolution, and (6) the absence of middle class values, for biological reasons, explains why most of the world is poor. The empirical support for these claims is examined, and all are questionable.

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“…In simple terms, the inventory provides a record of the possessions of an individual at death, including household goods, agricultural produce, crops in fields and barns, animals, and tools, and of the values of those possessions. Inventories have contributed to our understanding of agrarian change (Hoskins 1945;Thirsk 1967;Overton 1996), consumer behavior (Weatherill 1988;Shammas 1990a) and wealth holding (Jones 1980), as well as to studies of architecture, credit, language, material culture, and social identity, among other topics (Priestley and Corfield 1982;van der Woude and Schuurman 1980;Holderness 1975). 8 The inventory was created as part of the legal process of clearing probate (Arkell, Evans, and Goose 2000, chaps.…”

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Reprepresenting Text as Data

Spaeth¹

2004

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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In conventional approaches to computer analysis of historical sources, one must represent the data in structured formats in which content and context are discarded. Extensible markup language (XML), developed for data transfer on the Internet, permits preservation of the full text of irregular historical sources without sacrificing the ability to conduct systematic analysis. Related querying tools offer most functions of a relational database management system, including data transformation facilities for coding, standardizing, and aggregating nominal data. An XML database permits multiple interpretations of the data because the unit of analysis and the coding schemes are not defined at entry. In a case study of probate inventories, the author demonstrates how structured analysis of domestic interiors can be performed and introduces approaches to studying semistructured data.

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The Leicestershire Farmer in the Seventeenth Century

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The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis

The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis

A Review of Gregory Clark'sA Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

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