The contested countryside
Subtitle: rural politics and land controversy in modern Britain
By: edited by Jeremy Burchardt and Philip Conford.
Contributors: Burchardt, Jeremy, 1969-; Conford, Philip.
Series: International library of political studies -- v. 24
Publisher: I. B. Taurus & Co. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781845117153
Subjects: Land use, Rural -- Great Britain; Rural development -- Government policy -- Great Britain; Agriculture and state -- Great Britain; Environmental policy -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : farming and the countryside / Jeremy Burchardt; title: Land use and leisure : Leslie Scott and the contested countryside / Simon Miller; title: An organic countryside : agriculture for body, soul and nation / Philip Conford; title: Agriculture's role within the UK / Sir John Marsh; title: Agricultural incomes : a damaging history of disjunction between policy concern and evidence / Berkeley Hill; title: Murrains to mad cows : a very short history of governments, people and animal diseases / Paul Brassley; title: "Listen to us!" : country sports and the mobilization of a marginalized constituency / Graham Cox; title: From agricultural poverty to social exclusion : shifting approaches to rural poverty in England / Paul Milbourne; title: "The land of lost content" : ruralism, Englishness and historical change in the countryside, 1890-1990 / Alun Hawkins.