The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressure...

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1. Verfasser:	Burchardt, Jeremy 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2002
Schlagworte:	Labourers' Friend Society (London, England) / History Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1793-1873 Geschichte Allotment of land / England / History Working-men's gardens / England / History Rural poor / England / History / 19th century Agricultural laborers / England / History / 19th century Landzuweisungspolitik England / Rural conditions Großbritannien
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on the chronology of the movement and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments, showing how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England. This book casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 287 pages)
ISBN:	9781846150159