180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1989, The Vanishing Countryman investigates how farmers, farm workers, and other country crafts- and tradespeople have fared in response to significant changes across the British countryside in the past one hundred years.
The book explores the move towards large-scale and capital-intensive farming, and the conflict between increased production and damage to the... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Victorian farmer, B. A. Holderness; 2: The Workfolk, W. A. Armstrong; 3: In the sweat of thy face: the labourer and work, Alun Howkins; 4: The flight from the land, W. A. Armstrong; 5: Rural culture, Charles Phythian-Adams; 6: Voices from the past: rural Kent at the close of an era, Michael Winstanley; 7: The farmers in the twentieth century, B. A. Holderness; 8: The most despised craftsmen: farmworkers in the twentieth century, W. A. Armstrong; 9: The decline of the country craftsmen and tradesmen, C. W. Chalklin; 10: The new culture of the countryside, Michael Winstanley; References; Index
Biography
G. E. Mingay
