Back to the Land: The Pastoral Impulse in Victorian England from 1880 to 1914

First edition. The first study of the widespread alternative movement in Victorian England that transformed it from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry and commerce. Key figures such as John Ruskin, William Morris and Edward Carpenter are mentioned. Illustrated and indexed. viii , 264 pages with 8 pages of plates. cloth, dust jacket.. large 8vo..