vue - THE BRITISH AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION and why it is important to you in 3 minutes

Most of us tend to equate all the technological marvels around us as having their roots in the Industrial Revolution. While this is indeed true, there was a revolution beforehand that without it would have slowed the great industrial progress we have seen over the last three or four centuries to a grinding halt – The British Agricultural Revolution. SOURCES: Grubler, Arnulf (1990). The Rise and Fall of Infrastructures: Dynamics of Evolution and Technological Change in transport . Heidelberg and New York: Physica-Verlag. Overton, Mark (1996). Agricultural Revolution in England: The transformation of the agrarian economy 1500-1850. Cambridge University Press.