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

by Joan Thirsk

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198208138
• ISBN13: 9780198208136
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"