The contested countryside rural politics and land controversy in modern Britain

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ISBN: 9781441615909 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1441615903 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781845117153 (cased)
ISBN: 1845117158 (cased)
ISBN: 9781845117153 (cased)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (viii, 212 p.) : ill.
Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : farming and the countryside / Jeremy Burchardt -- Land use and leisure : Leslie Scott and the contested countryside / Simon Miller -- An organic countryside : agriculture for body, soul and nation / Philip Conford -- Agriculture's role within the UK / Sir John Marsh -- Agricultural incomes : a damaging history of disjunction between policy concern and evidence / Berkeley Hill -- Murrains to mad cows : a very short history of governments, people and animal diseases / Paul Brassley -- "Listen to us!" : country sports and the mobilization of a marginalized constituency / Graham Cox -- From agricultural poverty to social exclusion : shifting approaches to rural poverty in England / Paul Milbourne -- "The land of lost content" : ruralism, Englishness and historical change in the countryside, 1890-1990 / Alun Hawkins.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.