LEADER 04646nam 22006975 450 001 9910869167703321 005 20250807152950.0 010 $a9783031587436$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031587429 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-58743-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31504010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31504010 035 $a(CKB)32569141400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-58743-6 035 $a(OCoLC)1443086366 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932569141400041 100 $a20240626d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe British Police and Home Food Production in the Great War $ePolice as Ploughmen, 1917?1918 /$fby Mary Fraser 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (228 pages) 225 1 $aHistory Series 311 08$aPrint version: Fraser, Mary The British Police and Home Food Production in the Great War Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031587429 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Developing Food Crisis in World War One -- Chapter 3: Help for Farmers; No Stone Left Unturned -- Chapter 4: Horse and Mechanical Help for Farmers -- Chapter 5: The Importance of Increased Crop Production to Feed the Nation -- Chapter 6: Policemen in England Helped Farmers from March 1917 to the End of the War -- Chapter 7: Policemen in Scotland Helped Farmers from March 1917 to the End of the War -- Chapter 8: Release of Policemen in Birmingham and Glasgow: Two Case Studies -- Chapter 9: The Outcome for Britain of the Food Shortages of 1917. 330 $aThis book explores the role of the British Police in home food production during the First World War, a critical time when decreasing food imports threatened population starvation around the country. Drawing from the police?s most popular weekly journal, the book provides insights into policemen?s lives, the political context in which they worked, and the pressures on police forces throughout Britain during the Great War. Unlike neighbouring countries in Europe, Britain avoided major food riots due to government control of farming from December 1916, which prioritised agriculture to feed the nation. The police force released over 400 policemen in England and Scotland to serve as ploughmen from March 1917 for around two months. Almost a third of policemen throughout Britain had previous agricultural backgrounds and so were welcomed by farmers as experienced workers. This book illustrates not only why the food crisis arose and the state of British farming during the war, but it also sheds light on how individual police forces were approached and encouraged to release their policemen, at a time when police forces themselves were critically short of staff due to recruitment into the war. The author discusses how the release of policemen into agriculture as first responders benefitted the police and provided surveillance over home food production in the national interest. Mary Fraser is a social researcher based at the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, University of Glasgow, UK. She gained a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1995 and has been researching the history of the work of the British police for around 20 years. This is her second book on police history; the first, Policing the Home Front 1914-1918: The Control of the British Population at War, was published in 2019. She was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society in 2023. . 410 0$aHistory Series 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aLabor 606 $aHistory 606 $aCriminology$xHistory 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aSocial History 606 $aLabor History 606 $aHistory of Criminology 606 $aAgriculture 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aLabor. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aCriminology$xHistory. 615 0$aAgriculture. 615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aLabor History. 615 24$aHistory of Criminology. 615 24$aAgriculture. 676 $a941 700 $aFraser$b Mary$01743486 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910869167703321 996 $aThe British Police and Home Food Production in the Great War$94171677 997 $aUNINA