Agricultural transformation
What Agricultural transformation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Accelerated change through ongoing enclosure and early mechanisation, though the sector faced post-war depression and hardship and displacement for agricultural labourers.
Rapid change through the impact of collectivisation, which culminated in the People's Communes.
Topics that use Agricultural transformation
- 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885 – Government and a changing society, 1812–1832 (AQA A-Level)
- 2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997 – The transition to Socialism, 1952–1962 (AQA A-Level)
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