Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe
@article{Mazzotti2004EnlightenedMM, title={Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe}, author={Massimo Mazzotti}, journal={Technology and Culture}, year={2004}, volume={45}, pages={277 - 304} }
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, reformers in southern Europe sought to revitalize the political economy of the region. As Massimo Mazzotti puts it in "Enlightened Mills: Mechanizing Olive Oil Production in Mediterranean Europe," they believed that "political and social advancement . . . would follow naturally from economic liberalization and the introduction of new technologies." Olive oil production dominated commercial activity around the Mediterranean, so reformers naturally…
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