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The contested countryside : rural politics and land controversy in modern Britain / edited by Jeremy Burchardt and Philip Conford.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International library of political studies ; v. 24.
- International library of political studies ; v. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use, Rural--Great Britain.
- Land use, Rural.
- Rural development--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Rural development.
- Agriculture and state--Great Britain.
- Agriculture and state.
- Rural development--Government policy.
- Great Britain.
- Environmental policy--Great Britain.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I. B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction : farming and the countryside / Jeremy Burchardt
- Land use and leisure : Leslie Scott and the contested countryside / Simon Miller
- An organic countryside : agriculture for body, soul and nation / Philip Conford
- Agriculture's role within the UK / Sir John Marsh
- Agricultural incomes : a damaging history of disjunction between policy concern and evidence / Berkeley Hill
- Murrains to mad cows : a very short history of governments, people and animal diseases / Paul Brassley
- "Listen to us!" : country sports and the mobilization of a marginalized constituency / Graham Cox
- From agricultural poverty to social exclusion : shifting approaches to rural poverty in England / Paul Milbourne
- "The land of lost content" : ruralism, Englishness and historical change in the countryside, 1890-1990 / Alun Hawkins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845117153
- 1845117158
- OCLC:
- 264995011
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