The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781843836438)

The first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement.

The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on its chronology and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments. It thus shows how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England, and casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society.

JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading.

Author: Jeremy Burchardt
ISBN-10: 1843836432
ISBN-13: 9781843836438
Publisher: Boydell Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2011
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d