The Land and its People

Chapters in Rural Life and History

By:

Rowland Edmund Prothero

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

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Rowland Prothero, Baron Ernle (1851–1937) was an author, land agent and politician, whose public career was particularly concerned with agricultural matters. During the First World War he served as President of the Board of Agriculture, organising a significant increase in agricultural production by bringing more land into cultivation and mobilising the labour of the Women's Land Army and prisoners of war. As food shipping from overseas was increasingly interrupted by enemy submarines, this was vital to the national food supply, and many of his reforms were reinstated in 1939–1945. The Land and its People was published in 1925, and examines the rural economy at a time of great change. He outlines the social and economic history of agriculture in the nineteenth century, before discussing the recent wartime policies, and how state control of agriculture and the application of scientific methods were changing British farming.

Release date Australia

January 13th, 2011

Author

Rowland Edmund Prothero

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

274

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Dimensions

140x216x16

ISBN-13

9781108025300

Product ID

9498827

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