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Breaking New Ground: (1) Agricultural history; (2) Georg Forster

Joan Thirsk, a historian of English agriculture, discusses her research and writing on alternative agriculture (such as dye plants and oil seeds) in England from the fourteenth century onward. Hugh West discusses his study of Georg Forster, the eighteenth-century social observer, … Continue reading

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