The invention of improvement : information and material progress in seventeenth-century England / Paul Slack.

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Slack, Paul [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191757754
0191757756
9780191667534
0191667536
0199645914
9780199645916

Other title:

Information and material progress in seventeenth-century England

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DDC classification:

942.06 23

LOC classification:

HC254.5 .S58 2015eb

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Summary: The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.

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