イングランドの市民菜園運動 １７９３－１８７３年 The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History. New Series)

Burchardt, Jeremy

Royal Historical Society（2003/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780861932566
• DDC分類 333.3355094209034

基本説明

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.

Full 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.

Contents

The first allotment movement, c.1793-1830; the second allotment movement; allotments and rural society; towards the third allotment movement.