Examples of improver

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Furthermore, she chooses against an improver's use of the land.
Mid- and late-century improvers came to identify certain outsiders as threatening the very existence of collective self-improvement.
Given this tension, one very troubling question for improvers was how to recruit new members without compromising the very nature of self-improvement.
Ultimately, mutual improvers chose to jettison this missionary impulse altogether.
Significantly, some of these techniques and practices were condemned by the improvers who began to comment on the region over the late eighteenth century.
According to the improvers of the day, the hedge served several practical goals.
In its place, improvers argued for the autonomy of landlords to decide the size, and tenants to decide the produce of farms.
Early improvers, following this model of universally accessible intellectual culture, fell into one of two categories.
First, it emphasized common bonds among improvers while minimizing superficial differences.
Fleetwood may have been foolishly ambitious and financially imprudent in the late seventeenth century, but the improvers of the late eighteenth century were operating under very different economic conditions.
Of course, it can be argued that those who kept records were more likely than their unreconstructed brethren to have been active improvers, so this may distort the overall picture.
They envisaged the emergence of a broad class of petty entrepreneurs and agrarian improvers whose ample profits would uplift their living standards, knowledge and social status.
He isolates himself from others by adopting the abstract role of an improver of mankind.
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