The Death of Rural England
A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 May 2003
- ISBN 9780415138857
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This engaging history of rural England and Wales during the twentieth century looks at the role of the countryside as both a place of work and of leisure and looks at the many crises it has suffered during that time.
MoreLong description:
Alun Howkins' panoramic survey is a social history of rural England and Wales in the twentieth century. He examines the impact of the First World War, the role of agriculture throughout the century, and the expectations of the countryside that modern urban people harbour. Howkins analyzes the role of rural England as a place for work as well as leisure, and the problems caused by these often conflicting roles.
This overview will be welcomed by anyone interested in agricultural and social history, historical geographers, and all those interested in rural affairs.
'This is an admirable book: wide-ranging, drawing on a wide variety of sources, with the literary adding elegance to the economic... It requires no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it avoids jargon... It will be of interest to all those concerned with the recent British past and present.' - History Today, November 2003
'[A] highly readable and challenging account ... it is required reading for historians, economists, and social anthropologists.' - Agricultural History Review
'This well-researched volume ... give[s] a complete picture of changing rural life.' -History - The Journal of the Historical Association
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Introduction PART I ‘Blue remembered hills’: rural society, 1900–21 1 The countryside in a new century, 1900–14 2 The Great War and its aftermath, 1914–21 PART II The ‘locust years’, 1921–39 3 The misfortunes of agriculture, 1921–37 4 Landowners and farmers 5 The traditionalists: farm workers and domestic servants 6 New countrymen and women: workers and trippers PART III The second agricultural revolution, 1937–90 7 War and state agriculture, 1937–45 8 ‘Tractors plus chemicals’: agriculture and farming, 1945–90 PART IV What is the countryside for? Rural society, 1945–2001 9 A place to work and a place to play: incomers and outgoers, 1945–90 10 Defending the natural order? Environment and conservation, 1945–90 11 The countryside in crisis, 1990–2001
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