The allotment movement in England, 1793-1873 / / Jeremy Burchardt

• Autore: Burchardt Jeremy <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 333.33/55/094209034
• Soggetto topico: Allotment of land - England - History; Working-men's gardens - England - History; Rural poor - England - History - 19th century; Agricultural laborers - England - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: England Rural conditions
• Classificazione: NW 2350
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The first allotment movement, c. 1793-1830 -- The resurgence of allotment promotion and provision after 1830 -- The national movement and the Labourer's Friend Society -- The local movement and individual activists -- The allotment landlord -- The allotment tenant -- The social consequences of allotments -- Allotment promotion and provision, c. 1845-1873.
• Sommario/riassunto: The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on the chronology of the movement and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments, showing how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England. This book casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading.
• Titolo autorizzato: The allotment movement in England, 1793-1873
• ISBN: 1-78204-449-3; 1-84383-643-2; 1-84615-015-9; 9786610545643; 1-280-54564-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008438403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Royal Historical Society studies in history. . -New series.