From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60906
Date: 2008-10-15
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> Thanks to the agricultural revolution of the XVIIth century,
> the English population exploded and the outspill of population
> conquered most of the world.
Please tell me more about this agricultural revolution of the XVIIth
century which happened only in England
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I guess real historians like M. Knysh could say more.
I read that before the start of the industrial revolution,
England first knew an agricultural sharp increase of productivity,
which had two consequences :
- a brutal increase of the general population,
hence a lot of people who could/had to move somewhere else.
- a huge number of unemployed people
who were later on employed in new industrial activities,
that prior to that could not happen because there were nobody to work on
that.
This first happened in England.
Arnaud
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> To say nothing about Bretons, Vendeens and Charentais people who
> were sea-farers and corsaires.
And who made up the bulk of the French colonists in the new world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-David_Nau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiac
Some of the Acadians moved back to France after being kicked out by
the English, but moved to Louisiana after a few years. They preferred
America under British rule to the stifling atmosphere under l'ancien
régime in France.
Torsten
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No, this is a bit biased
Many French colonists in the new world -as you say- were from Paris and
Paris neighborhood.
I noticed You have some kind of recurrent hatred outbursts against Louis XIV
and the Ancien Regime.
but this problem of yours is irrelevant for most issues we discuss,
including Veneti.
Arnaud
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