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by Joan Thirsk

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People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems can still be found in the hard-won experience of people in the past.

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  • Title Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day
  • Author Joan Thirsk
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Publication date 1997-12-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780198206620 / 0198206623
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Agriculture - Great Britain, Agriculture - Great Britain - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98115344
  • Dewey Decimal Code 630.941

About the author

Joan Thirsk (CBE, FBA), was Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford from 1965-1983, and is currently President of the British Agricultural History Society.
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