| Description |
1 online resource (x, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. The First Experience, 1350-1500. 1. Agriculture after the Black Death -- Part II. The Second Experience, 1650-1750. 2. Entering a New Era -- 3. Settling into a Routine -- 4. Alternative Crops: The Successes -- 5. Alternative Crops: The Near-Failures and Failures -- Part III. The Third Experience, 1879-1939. 6. Familiar Strategies -- 7. Diversification and Innovation -- 8. Context and Conclusion -- Part IV. The Fourth Experience, 1980s Onward. 9. Alternative Agriculture Today -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems can still be found in the hard-won experience of people in the past. -- Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-338) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Agriculture -- Great Britain
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Agriculture -- Great Britain -- History
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Agricultural industries -- Great Britain
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Agricultural industries -- Great Britain -- History
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Agricultural innovations -- Great Britain
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
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Agricultural industries.
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Agricultural innovations.
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Agriculture.
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Biologische landbouw.
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Agriculture durable -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
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Industrie agro-alimentaire -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
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Agriculture -- Innovations -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
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Agriculture -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
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Great Britain.
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Angleterre (GB) -- Conditions rurales.
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France -- Conditions économiques.
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France -- Conditions rurales.
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Electronic books
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191586811 |
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0191586811 |
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0585071993 |
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9780585071992 |
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0191677922 |
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9780191677922 |
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