British agriculture in the First World War
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British agriculture in the First World War
Routledge, 1989
Available at 24 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 254-259
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first comprehensive account of British farming in the First World War. As such it offers revisions of many views which have become accepted over the past fifty years. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of history of farming, technology, women's history.
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Farming and Food Supply before 1914 3 1914-16: Business as Usual
- The Evolution of Policy 4 Recruiting and Farm Labour 5 Power and Machinery 6 Fertilisers and Weeds 7 Farming in Wartime 8 1917-18: Farming as a controlled industry
- Policy
- the Leak of Intervention 9 Labourers, Soldiers, Prisoners and Women 10 Tractors and Machinery 11 Fertilisers and Feed 12 The Work of the Country Executive Committees 13 The Achievement
- The Success of the Plough Policy 14 The Output of Agriculture, 1914-18 15 Farming and Food Supply 16 Farming, Landowner and Labourer 17 The Legacy.
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