L’«agriculture alternative». À propos d’un livre de Joan Thirsk

Abstract

«Alternative Agriculture ». About a book of Joan Thirsk. This paper, aroused by the publication of the last book of Joan Thirsk : Alternative Agriculture. . . , is only a very short essay to attract attention on the necessity of a best knowledge of other cultivations and other activities than cereals for alimentation or stock breeding. At the same time, are discussed from several exemples the conclusions of Joan Thirsk. Theses exemples are more particulary the expansion, in the eighteenth century, of mulberries in France in the Nîme's country and the Rhone’s valley, the considerable production of barley in England and Scotland, the working for the Scottish kelp, the cultivation of the french flax.