Paradise lost : rural idyll and social change in England since 1800 / Jeremy Burchardt
2002. London ; New York New York : I.B. Tauris ; In the U.S.A. and in Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443792
ISBN: 1860645143
Physical description: 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Contents: Industrialization and urbanization -- Literature and the countryside, c.1800 to c.1870 -- Radicalism and the land, c.1790 to c.1850 -- Gardens, allotments and parks -- Model villages and garden cities -- Literary attitudes to the countryside in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Land reform after 1850 -- Preservationism, 'Englishness' and the rise of planning, c.1880-1939 -- The economic consequences of rural nostalgia -- Rambling -- The organic movement before and during the Second World War -- Rural reconstruction between the wars -- Rural change and the legislative framework, 1939 to 2000 -- Agriculture and the environment -- Recreation in the countryside since the Second World War -- Intra-village social change and attitudinal conflict in the twentieth century -- Town, country and politics at the end of the twentieth century. Subjects: City and town life Great Britain History. Country life Great Britain History. Country life England History 19th, 20th century.
Price: €45.00