Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to the challenge of increasing the country's wealth and general wellbeing. Improvements in agriculture and industry, commerce and social welfare, would bring infinite prosperity and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199645914
ISBN13:9780199645916
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:OUP Oxford
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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