Of Cabbages and Kings

Of Cabbages and Kings PDF 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

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 PDF 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.

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

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 PDF Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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