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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 April 2013
    10 May 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139208048
    9781108047746
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208048
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.64kg, 508 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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    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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