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The English Countryside Between the Wars

By Paul Brassley

The English Countryside Between the Wars Social Sciences

The English Countryside Between the Wars

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'England is the country, and the country is England', as Stanley Baldwin famously said in 1924, but what kind of country was it? There are persistent memories of depression and depopulation, of dilapidated villages and deserted country houses, in a period of bitter discontent and disturbance when the brief febrile excitements of the 1920s gave way to the thirties, Auden's 'low dishonest decade'. Recent work has radically modified the history of the interwar years, but largely from an urban and industrial viewpoint. Hitherto this revisionist perspective has left unquestioned one of the central components of the old orthodoxy: that this was a period of unremitting, unmitigated decline in the countryside. In 'The English Countryside Between the Wars' an interdisciplinary group of scholars have come together to challenge this view. Organised into sections on society, culture, politics and the economy, and embracing subjects as diverse as women novelists and village crafts, the book argues that almost everywhere we look in the countryside between the wars there were signs of new growth and dynamic development. This will be required reading for everyone with an interest in British history between the wars and to lecturers, teachers and students studying social, cultural, political, economic and environmental history, historical and cultural geography, English literature, performance studies and art and design history. Contributors: ALUN HOWKINS, CAITLIN ADAMS, MARION SHAW, MARK RAWLINSON, MICK WALLIS, DAVID JEREMIAH, CHRISTOPHER BAILEY, JOHN SHEAIL, CLARE GRIFFITHS, NICHOLAS MANSFIELD, ROY BRIGDEN.
Product details
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2006-10-19
Publication Date:
2006-10-19
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
184383264X
ISBN13:
9781843832645
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[email protected]
Weight:
590 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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