Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day

Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day image
ISBN-10:

0198206623

ISBN-13:

9780198206620

Author(s): THIRSK, Joan
Edition: 1
Released: Dec 04, 1997
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
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Description:

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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