The battle of the fields : rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War /

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'.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Short, Brian, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Rural conditions.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
England > Social conditions > 20th century.
England > Rural conditions > 20th century.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Angleterre > Conditions rurales > 20e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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