3 ms·
>How do you get from there to a city Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure Basically peasants, once kicked
by rusk 10y ago
>How do you get from there to a city
Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Basically peasants, once kicked off the land end up herded into cities.
Presumably the thinking at the time (beyond "lets make ourselves rich") was that agricultural production is more efficient when undertaken as a large-scale concern rather than by scattered small community holdings.
- maxerickson 10y agoSo how is the step of consolidating the land not an innovation then? Or the invention of the various tools to actually make the agriculture viable and progressively more efficient.
- rusk 10y agoIt is an innovation. I was presenting this as an alternative antecedent to the development of cities. Also provides an interesting corollary on the consequences of innovation.