Where there's muck, there's brass: The market for manure in the industrial revolution

Economic History Review

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 333-372

  Brunt, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC HISTORY; MANURE; WHEAT;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34147103407     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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