The Age of Enclosures


 
 
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The Age of Enclosures

THE AGE OF NEW ENCLOSURES

  • There is one dramatic fact that makes the period after the 1780s different from any earlier period in English  history some following points are :- 
  • In the earlier times, rapid population growth was followed by food shortages in England. But in 19th century grain production grew as quickly as population .In 1868 England was producing 80% of food it consumed and rest was imported.
  • This increase in food grain production was made possible not by any radical innovation in agriculture technology,but by bringing new lands under cultivation. landlords took pasture lands, open fields, forest common , machines etc and turned them into agriculture fields.
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