Talk:British Agricultural Revolution
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[edit] Expert
Is this article still in need of review by an expert after the recent edits of the past 1-2 weeks? --Galaxydog2000 00:39, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- As I said below, I'm no expert... But you can probably safely remove the expert tag, as I think the outstanding problem at the time of tagging, that a possibly discounted historical view was being presented as definitive, is now resolved. I think the lead is now sufficiently vague... --Tsavage 02:40, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Traditional interpretation
This is a traditional interpretation of the 'Agricultural Revolution', a top-down perspective focussing on the effects of innovative landlords. Historiography on the subject has developed a great deal, and nowadays the 'yeoman's agricultural revolution' interpretation is more fashionable: that small yeoman farmers were the driving force behing the changes that allowed agricultural probuction to keep up with the population boom of the nineteenth century. Recommend a rewrite. --81.136.125.40 01:38, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I'm no expert, but I do understand the problem. I've started the realignment with some additions to the lead. --Tsavage 01:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How massive is "massive"?
I came ot this article to try to answer a question on the topic: how greatly did agricultural yields rise over history? The article starts by noting the English system resulted in massive increases in yield, but there is no number put to this claim.
Anyone know? There has to be a good chart out there somewhere. A friend who used to work in Uganda claimed it was something like 3 bushels per acre of corn there vs. about 22 in Europe, but that's against the most modern European methods. Maury 11:48, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I added a statistic:
- In 1870, Britain was producing three times as much food as it was in 1700.
--LakeHMM 00:46, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Request for help
I've just added Expert and Agri-stub tags to the article, after briefly trying to edit the opening paragraphs. This article needs more work to bring it up to encyclopedic quality IMO, and I hope it will get it. Cheers, Madmagic 20:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
