Based upon your recommendation and reviews, I bought Mazoyer & Roudart. The book is simply phenomenal, providing a better picture of agricultural and social revolutions (and how they are interconnected) than anything I have ever read. 5 stars!
The odd thing though is how two such brilliant researchers could be so wrong on their prognostications and recommendations. The contrast is shocking. Great historians lost in a dysfunctional anti-progress worldview.
Yes, I agree completely. The Green Malthusianism that permeates the beginning and the ending of the book is completely at odds with the rest of the book.
My other complaint is that they said very little about Chinese agriculture.
Based upon your recommendation and reviews, I bought Mazoyer & Roudart. The book is simply phenomenal, providing a better picture of agricultural and social revolutions (and how they are interconnected) than anything I have ever read. 5 stars!
The odd thing though is how two such brilliant researchers could be so wrong on their prognostications and recommendations. The contrast is shocking. Great historians lost in a dysfunctional anti-progress worldview.
Yes, I agree completely. The Green Malthusianism that permeates the beginning and the ending of the book is completely at odds with the rest of the book.
My other complaint is that they said very little about Chinese agriculture.