An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of
seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History
Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding
Academic Title Award "This meticulously researched book gives a
detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the
second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves
together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm
Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted
change on the ground to offer an incisive account of the complex
technological, political and cultural developments which gave rise
to some of the greatest changes in English farming history. It will
stand as the key reference point for those with an interest in the
history of agricultural change in Britain." Professor Mark Riley,
University of Liverpool At the outbreak of the Second World War in
1939 British agriculture was largely powered by the muscles of men,
women, and horses, and used mostly nineteenth-century technology to
produce less than half of the country's temperate food. By 1985,
less land and far fewer people were involved in farming, the power
sources and technologies had been completely transformed, and the
output of the country's agriculture had more than doubled. This is
the story of the national farm, reflecting the efforts and
experiences of 200,000 or so farmers and their families, together
with the people they employed. But it is not the story of any
individual one of them. We know too little about change at the
individual farm level, although what happened varied considerably
between farms and between different technologies. Based on an
improbably-surviving archive of Farm Management Survey accounts,
supported by oral histories from some of the farmers involved, this
book explores the links between the production of new technologies,
their transmission through knowledge networks, and their reception
on individual farms. It contests the idea that rapid adoption of
technology was inevitable, and reveals the unevenness, variability
and complexity that lay beneath the smooth surface of the official
statistics.
General
| Imprint: |
Boydell & Brewer
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Boydell Studies in Rural History |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Paul Brassley
• Michael Winter
• Matt Lobley
• David Harvey
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
300 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-83765-110-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-83765-110-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781837651108 |
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