Battle of the fields : rural community and authority in britain during the second world war.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Short, Brian, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

468 pages ; 24cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 Prelude: The 1930s and the origins and purpose of state intervention in farming 13

2 Rural society on the eve of war 34

3 The arrival of the county committees and their structures 54

4 The membership of the county committees and their role in farm surveillance 90

5 Networking the rural community 128

6 Dispossessing farmers in England and Wales during and after the war 154

7 Power and tragedy: The sad case of Ray Walden 197

8 Reclamation: Environmental and landscape transformation, 1939-45 222

9 Reclamation; The Fenland and coastal marshes 267

10 Wartime farming and state control in Scotland and Northern Ireland 298

11 Representation, memory and fiction 344

12 1945 and postwar continuities 369

13 Contradictions in a countryside at war 401.

ISBN:

1843839377

9781843839378

OCLC:

878299530