The battle of the fields : rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War /: rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War. (2014)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The battle of the fields : rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War /: rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War. (2014)
- Main Title:
- The battle of the fields : rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War
- Further Information:
- Note: Brian Short.
- Authors:
- Short, Brian, 1944-
- Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing food security in the mid-twentieth century; 1 Prelude: The 1930s and the origins and purpose of state intervention in farming; 2 Rural society on the eve of war; 3 The arrival of the county committees and their structures; 4 The membership of the county committees and their role in farm surveillance; 5 Networking the rural community; 6 Dispossessing farmers in England and Wales during and after the war; 7 Power and tragedy: The sad case of Ray Walden. 8 Reclamation: Environmental and landscape transformation, 1939-459 Reclamation: The Fenland and coastal marshes; 10 Wartime farming and state control in Scotland and Northern Ireland; 11 Representation, memory and fiction; 12 1945 and postwar continuities; 13 Contradictions in a countryside at war; Bibliography; Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Woodbridge : The Boydell Press
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (482 pages)
- Subjects:
- 940.531
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
Rural conditions
Social aspects
Social conditions
England -- Social conditions -- 20th century
England -- Rural conditions -- 20th century
England
Great Britain
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781782043164
1782043160 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781843839378
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.424282
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