The ruin of rural England
Subtitle: A Warning.
Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.
Published: 1901
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 283
Description: A somewhat eccentric book on Victorian rural economics, but with attitudes that will resonate with the modern British reader, in which the author largely blames the depression of farming in the late Victorian age on the attitude of the then privately- owned railway companies and the rise of capitalism. A useful book for the sociology/economics student and those who love the stranger aspects of railway history.
Table of contents: title: I.    'Ichabod'; title: II.   The farmer and his calling; title: III.  The effects of bad government; title: IV.  Government by railway company; title: V.   The ruin of Essex by the Great Eastern Railway; title: VI.  The responsibility of the government and the country; title: VII. The Quadruple Alliance; title: VIII. Market gambling; title: IX.  The hostility of the public press; title: X.   Labour troubles and the labourers' difficulties; title: XI.  Reform or revolution; title: XII. Conclusion