Brian Short

The Battle of the Fields

Rural Community and Authority in Britain During the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and to those who continue to share a fascination for the Second World War, in particular the 'home front'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 236mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1202g
• ISBN-13: 9781843839378
• ISBN-10: 1843839377
• Artikelnr.: 40822063

Autorenporträt

Brian Short is an emeritus professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. He has a longstanding interest in the rural landscape history and society of South-East England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: writing food security in the mid-twentieth century Prelude:
the 1930s and the origins and purpose of state intervention in farming
Rural society on the eve of war The arrival of the county committees and
their structures The membership of the county committees and their role in
farm surveillance Networking the rural community Dispossessing farmers in
England and Wales during and after the war Power and tragedy: the sad case
of Ray Walden Reclamation: environmental and landscape transformation 1939
- 1945 Reclamation: the Fenland and coastal marshes Wartime farming and
state control in Scotland and Northern Ireland Representation, memory and
fiction 1945 and Postwar continuities Contradictions in a countryside at
war