Author: Robert FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
General View of the Agriculture and Mineralogy, Present State and Circumstances of the County Wicklow
Author: Robert FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
General View of the agriculture and mineralogy, present state and circumstances of the county Wicklow, with observations on the means of their improvement
Author: Robert FraserAgricultural Writers
Author: Donald McDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800
Author: Donald McDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation
Author: Patrick CarrollPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520932807
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This highly original, groundbreaking study explores the profound relationship between science and government to present a new understanding of modern state formation. Beginning with the experimental science of Robert Boyle in seventeenth-century England, Patrick Carroll develops the concept of engine science to capture the centrality of engineering practices and technologies in the emerging mechanical philosophy. He traces the introduction of engine science into colonial Ireland, showing how that country subsequently became a laboratory for experiments in statecraft. Carroll’s wide-ranging study, spanning institutions, political philosophy, and policy implementation, demonstrates that a number of new technological developments—from cartography, statistics, and natural history to geology, public health, and sanitary engineering—reveal how modern science came to engineer land, people, and the built environment into a material political state in an unprecedented way, creating the "modern" state. Shedding new light on sociology, the history of science and technology, and on the history of British colonial projects in Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, his study has implications for understanding postcolonial occupations and nation-building ventures today and on contemporary dilemmas such as the role of science and government in environmental sustainability.
The Farmer's Magazine
Author: British Farmer's Magazine
Author: The Soils of Ireland
Author: Rachel CreamerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331971189X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedology in Ireland. It describes the main soil types of the country, their functions, ecological use, and the conditions to which they were subjected associated with management over time. In addition, it presents a complete set of data, pictures and maps, including benchmark profiles. Factors involved in soil formation are also discussed, making use of new, unpublished data and elaborations. The book was produced with the support and sponsorship of Teagasc, The Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland and the Irish Environmental Protection Agency.
Ireland Before and After the Famine
Author: Cormac Ó GrádaPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719040351
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.
Feast and Famine
Author: Leslie ClarksonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.