Accounting on English Landed Estates During the Agricultural Revolution--a Textbook Perspective‪.‬

INTRODUCTION The British Agricultural Revolution had its beginnings in the 16th century and had run its course by the middle of the 19th century [Overton, 1996]. It was a period which saw the rise of the "capitalist farmer" [Tawney, 1967, p. 403; Bryer, 2006] and a transformation in agricultural practices which massively increased productivity and output. Radical farming innovations included the enclosure of land, increased mechanization, new systems of crop rotation, and selective breeding. (1) It was also a period which saw landowners exploit the mineral content of their terrain. Bettey [1993, p. 83] summarizes some of the outcomes as follows: