British agriculture in the First World War

Author(s)

• Dewey, P. E. (Peter E)

Bibliographic Information

British agriculture in the First World War

P.E. Dewey

Routledge, 1989

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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Details

• NCID: BA06973362
• ISBN:
  • 0415026377
• LCCN: 88024023
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 262 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD1925
  • DC19 : 338.1/0941
  • NDC8 : 612.33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Agriculture -- Great Britain -- Military aspects
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936
  • LCSH : World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain