Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939 write by J. Wordie. This book was released on 2000-07-10. Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the decline of landed power in England between 1815 and 1939, primarily in political, but also in economic and social terms. The essays, by leading authors in the field, examine different aspects of the decline of landed power.
The Battle of the Fields
The Battle of the Fields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of the Fields write by Brian Short. This book was released on 2014. The Battle of the Fields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and to those who continue to share a fascination for the Second World War, in particular the 'home front'. The Battle of the Fields tells the story of rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War by looking at the County War Agricultural Executive Committees. From 1939 they were imbued with powers to transform British farming to combat the loss of food imports caused by German naval activity and initial European mainland successes. Their powers were sweeping and draconian. When fully exercised against recalcitrant farmers, dispossession in part or whole could and did result. This book includes the most detailed analysis of these dispossessions including the tragic case of Ray Walden, the Hampshire farmer who was killed by police after refusing to leave hisfarmhouse in 1940. The committees were deemed successful by Whitehall as harbingers of modernity: mechanization, draining, artificial fertilizers, reclamation of heaths, marshes and woodlands. We now deplore some of these changes but Britain did not starve, in large part thanks to their efforts. This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and tothose who continue to share a fascination for the Second World War, in particular the "home front". It will also demonstrate to all who are anxious about food security in the modern age how this question was dealt with 70 years ago. BRIAN SHORT is Emeritus Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, and formerly Dean of School and Head of the Department of Geography.
Food for War
Food for War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food for War write by Alan F. Wilt. This book was released on 2001-09-20. Food for War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Food for War is a ground-breaking study of Britain's food and agricultural preparations in the 1930s as the nation once again made ready for war. Historians writing about 1930s Britain have usually focused on the Depression, appeasement, or political, military, and industrial concerns. None have dealt adequately with another significant topic, food and agriculture, as the nation moved, albeit reluctantly, from peace to war. In this new account Alan F. Wilt makes right this omission by examining in depth the relationship between food, agriculture, and the nation's preparations for war. He reveals how food and agriculture became closely linked to rearmament as early as 1936; that the government's preparations in this sector, as contrasted with other areas of the economy, were relatively well-developed when war broke out in 1936; and that rural and farm interests well understood the effect that war would have on their way of life. He argues that food and agriculture need to be integrated into the more general historical discourse, for what happened in Britain in the 1930s not only set the stage for World War II, but also contributed to a more robust agriculture in the decades that followed.
The English Countryside Between the Wars
The English Countryside Between the Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Countryside Between the Wars write by Paul Brassley. This book was released on 2006. The English Countryside Between the Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Organised into sections on society, culture, politics and the economy, and embracing subjects as diverse as women novelists and village crafts, this book argues that almost everywhere we look in the countryside between the wars there were signs of new growth and dynamic development.
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain write by Geraint Thomas. This book was released on 2020-11-05. Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A radical reading of British Conservatives' fortunes between the wars, exploring how the party adapted to mass democracy after 1918.
