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100 1 _aSlack, Paul,
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245 1 4 _aThe invention of improvement :
_binformation and material progress in seventeenth-century England /
_cPaul Slack.
246 3 0 _aInformation and material progress in seventeenth-century England
264 1 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource :
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aThe 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.
588 0 _aOnline resource; title from home page (viewed on September 24, 2014).
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