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Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939

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  1. J. R. Wordie

    1. Reading University, Reading, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • J. R. Wordie
    Pages 1-32

  3. Perceptions and Reality: the Effects of the Corn Laws and their Repeal in England, 1815–1906

    • J. R. Wordie
    Pages 33-69

  4. ‘Preventing Ourselves from Being Plundered by our Betters’: Thomas Perronet Thompson and the Corn Laws

    • Michael J. Turner
    Pages 70-97

  5. Land, Labour, and Politics: Parliament and Allotment Provision, 1830–1870

    • Jeremy Burchardt
    Pages 98-127

  6. The Agricultural Interest and its Critics, 1840–1914

    • David Martin
    Pages 128-148

  7. No Longer the Farmers’ Friend? The Conservative Party and Agricultural Protection, 1880–1914

    • Ewen Green
    Pages 149-177

  8. Agricultural Policy and the National Farmers’ Union, 1908–1939

    • Jonathan Brown
    Pages 178-198

  9. ‘Red Tape Farm’? Visions of a Socialist Agriculture in 1920s and 1930s Britain

    • Clare Griffiths
    Pages 199-241

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 242-260
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About this book

This book traces the decline of landed power in England between 1815 and 1939, primarily in political, but also in economic and social terms. The essays, by leading authors in the field, examine different aspects of the decline of landed power.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Reading University, Reading, UK

    J. R. Wordie

About the editor

ROSS WORDIE is a Lecturer in Early Modern Social and Economic History at Reading University. His publications include Estate Management in Eighteenth-Century England (1982) and with C.W.Chalkin Town and Countryside: the English Landowner in the National Economy, 1660-1860 (1989). He has contributed to The Economic History Review, Past and Present, Research in Economic History, Twentieth-Century British History, and The Agrarian History of England and Wales.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939

  • Editors: J. R. Wordie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514775

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-74483-3Published: 11 July 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41036-1Published: 01 January 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51477-5Published: 10 July 2000

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 260

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Agriculture, Social History, Modern History

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