THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE by Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero ( 9780511792229 )

Item Details

Title:

THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
CHAPTERS IN RURAL LIFE AND HISTORY

By:

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£60.00
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

0511792220

ISBN 13:

9780511792229

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 March, 2012

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Description:

This survey of British agriculture is an important source for social and economic historians, especially of the First World War.

Synopsis:

Rowland Prothero, Baron Ernle (1851-1937) was an author, land agent and politician, whose public career was particularly concerned with agricultural matters. During the First World War he served as President of the Board of Agriculture, organising a significant increase in agricultural production by bringing more land into cultivation and mobilising the labour of the Women's Land Army and prisoners of war. As food shipping from overseas was increasingly interrupted by enemy submarines, this was vital to the national food supply, and many of his reforms were reinstated in 1939-1945. The Land and its People was published in 1925, and examines the rural economy at a time of great change. He outlines the social and economic history of agriculture in the nineteenth century, before discussing the recent wartime policies, and how state control of agriculture and the application of scientific methods were changing British farming.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

ENGLISH FARMING, PAST AND PRESENT (PB)

QUARTERLY REVIEW VOLUME 56

QUARTERLY REVIEW VOLUME 64

THE AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION AND THE SUFFERINGS OF THE CLERGY

THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE (PB)

THE LETTERS OF RICHARD FORD, 1797-1858;