Description
Standing at the intersection of a number of disciplines--including landscape studies, horticulture, and urban history-- The Working Man's Green Space focuses on the development of allotment gardens in European countries in the nearly half-century between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when the French Third Republic, the German Empire, and the late Victorian era in England saw the development of unprecedented measures to improve the lot of the ""labouring classes."" Nilsen shows how community gardening is inscribed within a social contract that differs from country to country, but how there is also an underlying aesthetic and social significance to these gardens that transcends national borders.
About the Author
Micheline Nilsen is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University South Bend, USA. She is the author of Railways and Western European Capitals: Studies of Implantation in London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813935089
Author Micheline Nilsen
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint University of Virginia Press
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Weight(grams) 501g