The Agrarian History of England and Wales

by Edited by Edith H. Whetham , General editor Joan Thirsk

• ISBN13: 9780521200134
• ISBN10: 052120013X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Volume VIII of the Agrarian History of England and Wales was first published in 1978, and provides a technical, social and economic history of rural England and Wales in the years 1914-1939. This period included four years of war, during which there was a rapid rise in prices, the post-war deflation and the depression. The author assesses the effects of these political and economic conditions on farming and farm workers. She describes regional variations in patterns of farming and the changes in methods of production by which farmers tried to reduce costs and increase output. She also examines the extension of government control over farming and the introduction of the marketing boards, and discusses the development of agricultural technology. Above all, she describes considers the conditions of life for the diminishing numbers of farm workers.

Table of Contents

Preface by the general editor

Tables

Abbreviations

Weights and measures

Preface

Agricultural production in 1914

Markets for the agricultural output

Types of farming

Land and people

Agriculture and the outbreak of war

Policy for agriculture, 1915-16

The food shortage and agricultural policy 1916-18

Price control and agricultural policy, 1918-20

The post-war years, 1919-21

Prices, costs and policy, 1921-9

Changes in farming practice

Farming inputs and outputs

The economic depression, 1929-33

Agricultural policy, 1929-37

Practice with science

Changes in farming practice

The waygoing

The land

Selected bibliography

Index

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