The countryside of East Anglia : changing landscapes, 1870-1950 / Susanna Wade Martins, Tom Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wade Martins, Susanna, 1946-

Contributor:

Williamson, Tom, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes--England--East Anglia--History--19th century.

Landscapes.

Landscapes--England--East Anglia--History--20th century.

History.

East Anglia (England)--Historical geography--19th century.

East Anglia (England).

East Anglia (England)--Historical geography--20th century.

England--East Anglia.

Physical Description:

viii, 252 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Rochester, N.Y. : The Boydell Press, 2008.

Summary:

Landscape historians usually study the distant past, but the countryside we enjoy today was in large measure created by vast social, economic and environmental changes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book describes these changes, and their complex effects on the rural environment.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Context 1

Chapter 2 Farming in Depression 11

Chapter 3 Alternative Agriculture 45

Chapter 4 Estate Landscapes 73

Chapter 5 New Landscapes 96

Chapter 6 The Changing Countryside 119

Chapter 7 Change in the Village 148

Chapter 8 Imagining the Countryside 177

Chapter 9 Postscript: The Second World War and its Afermath 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.

ISBN:

9781843834175

1843834170

OCLC:

213855813