Alternative Agriculture : A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day
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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.
Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day ,Joan Thirsk,Oxford University Press, USA,0198206623,Agricultural History,Agricultural industries,Agricultural innovations,Agriculture,Agriculture - General,Europe - Great Britain - General,Great Britain,History,History: World,Technology,Technology & Industrial Arts,Agriculture & Farming,Agriculture & related industries,Economic history,History / Great Britain,History, World | British,Modern period, c 1500 onwards,Social history,United Kingdom, Great Britain,c 1000 CE to c 1500
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