Author: Caroline Foley
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781011591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
“An excellent account” of Britain’s tradition of parceling out land for the public to grow food on, and the colorful history behind it (The Independent). This lively book tells the story of the private garden plots known as allotments—from their origin in the seventeenth century, when new enclosures that deprived the peasantry of access to common lands were fiercely protested, to the victory gardens of the world wars, and into the present day, when they serve less as a means of survival than as a respite from the modern world. While delving into the effects of the Napoleonic Wars, the Corn Laws, and the utopian dissenters known as the Diggers, the author reveals the multiple roles of allotments—and champions their history in the hope of protecting them for the future. “Foley’s book reminds us that the right to share the earth has always been an asymmetric struggle.” —The Guardian “Fascinating and handsomely illustrated.” —Daily Mail “Well-told . . . . [a] gallop through the history of useful rather than ornamental crops.” —Spectator Australia
Of Cabbages and Kings
Author: Caroline Foley
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781011591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
“An excellent account” of Britain’s tradition of parceling out land for the public to grow food on, and the colorful history behind it (The Independent). This lively book tells the story of the private garden plots known as allotments—from their origin in the seventeenth century, when new enclosures that deprived the peasantry of access to common lands were fiercely protested, to the victory gardens of the world wars, and into the present day, when they serve less as a means of survival than as a respite from the modern world. While delving into the effects of the Napoleonic Wars, the Corn Laws, and the utopian dissenters known as the Diggers, the author reveals the multiple roles of allotments—and champions their history in the hope of protecting them for the future. “Foley’s book reminds us that the right to share the earth has always been an asymmetric struggle.” —The Guardian “Fascinating and handsomely illustrated.” —Daily Mail “Well-told . . . . [a] gallop through the history of useful rather than ornamental crops.” —Spectator Australia
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781011591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
“An excellent account” of Britain’s tradition of parceling out land for the public to grow food on, and the colorful history behind it (The Independent). This lively book tells the story of the private garden plots known as allotments—from their origin in the seventeenth century, when new enclosures that deprived the peasantry of access to common lands were fiercely protested, to the victory gardens of the world wars, and into the present day, when they serve less as a means of survival than as a respite from the modern world. While delving into the effects of the Napoleonic Wars, the Corn Laws, and the utopian dissenters known as the Diggers, the author reveals the multiple roles of allotments—and champions their history in the hope of protecting them for the future. “Foley’s book reminds us that the right to share the earth has always been an asymmetric struggle.” —The Guardian “Fascinating and handsomely illustrated.” —Daily Mail “Well-told . . . . [a] gallop through the history of useful rather than ornamental crops.” —Spectator Australia
The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
Author: Jeremy Burchardt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861932560
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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 of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on the chronology of the movement and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments, showing how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England. This book casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861932560
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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 of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on the chronology of the movement and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments, showing how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England. This book casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading.
Cotton Acreage Allotment and Marketing Quota Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Cotton Acreage Allotment and Marketing Quota Programs (including Peanuts and Wheat), Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee of ..., 81-1 on H.R. 5392 (superseded by H.R. 5738), June 29 ... July 15, 1949
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Effects of Acreage-allotment Programs, 1954 and 1955
Author: United States. Agricultural Research Service. Production Economics Research Branch
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Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Caribou-Targhee National Forest (N.F.), Caribou Sheep Allotment Management Plan Revision
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Dakota Prairie Grasslands, NE McKenzie Allotment Management Plan Revisions
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Compilation of Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, Federal Crop Insurance Act, Sugar Act of 1948, Agricultural Act of 1949, Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, Related Appropriation Items, and Miscellaneous Laws, Including Amendments as of January 1, 1953
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Bighorn National Forest (N.F.), Tongue River Allotment Management Plan
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Gallatin National Forest (N.F.), North Bridgers Allotment Management Plan Update
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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