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Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Brassley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.68Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would... -
The English Countryside between the Wars: Regeneration or Decline? Paul Brassley 9781843832645
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09A revisionist look at the true state of rural England between the two world wars. England is the country, and the country is England, as Stanley Baldwin famously said in 1924, but what kind of... -
The Real Agricultural Revolution - The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985 by Paul Brassley 9781783276356
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €108.73An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding... -
War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s Paul Brassley 9781138110434
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many... -
The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985 by Paul Brassley 9781837651108
Booksplease Price: €33.08An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding... -
Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of Rural Britain Paul Brassley (University of Exeter, UK) 9781032402291
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countryside, without a reliable mains electricity supply. By 1938, two-thirds of rural dwellings had been... -
Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding by Jonathan Harwood
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is... -
The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution by Rolf Peter Sieferle 9781874267539
Booksplease Price: €34.01"The Subterrranean Forest" studies the historical transition from the agrarian solar energy regime to the use of fossil energy, which has fuelled the industrial transformation of the last 200 years... -
Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars by F. Trentmann 9781349541072
Booksplease Price: €55.62This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first half of the Twentieth century. Food shortages and famines, fears of deprivation, and food... -
A Manufactured Plague: The History of Foot-and-mouth Disease in Britain by Abigail Woods
RRP: €67.82Booksplease Price: €66.45Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health?... -
Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960: From food shortages to food surpluses by Carin Martiin
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local... -
Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture Rosemary Shirley 9781138546738
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores 'the countryside' as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its... -
Nazi Hunger Politics: A History of Food in the Third Reich by Gesine Gerhard 9781442227248
Booksplease Price: €55.99During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was... -
The Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy: Coordinated Capitalism or Bureaucratic Monster? Fernando Collantes 9780367858209
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.86What is the balance of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy more than half a century after its birth? Does it illustrate the virtues of the European model of coordinated capitalism, as...