The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900

ISBN-13: 9780415138857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str.

Alun Howkins;Howkins Alun

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Alun Howkins is Professor of Social History at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include Poor Labouring Men (1985) and Reshaping Rural England (1992). He wrote and presented a four-part history of agriculture for BBC2, Fruitful Earth, in 1999.