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Agriculture; England; History

  • A Green and Pleasant Landby Ursula Buchan

    Random House 2013; US$ 26.69

    'War is the normal occupation of man - war and gardening' Winston Churchill A Green and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables. As the Second World War began in earnest and a whole nation listened to wireless broadcasts,... more...

  • The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873by Jeremy Burchardt

    Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 90.00

    The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries; allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis... more...

  • Farming to Halvesby Elizabeth Griffiths; Mark Overton

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00

    Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development. more...

  • Agricultural Revolution in Englandby Mark Overton

    Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 33.00

    A comprehensive and accessible survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850, written specifically for students. more...

  • A Manufactured Plagueby Abigail Woods

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95

    Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? And why, in the epidemic of 2001, did the government's control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and mass slaughter? This groundbreaking... more...

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