Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Writing food security in the mid-twentieth century
- 1 Prelude: The 1930s and the origins and purpose of state intervention in farming
- 2 Rural society on the eve of war
- 3 The arrival of the county committees and their structures
- 4 The membership of the county committees and their role in farm surveillance
- 5 Networking the rural community
- 6 Dispossessing farmers in England and Wales during and after the war
- 7 Power and tragedy: The sad case of Ray Walden
- 8 Reclamation: Environmental and landscape transformation, 1939–45
- 9 Reclamation: The Fenland and coastal marshes
- 10 Wartime farming and state control in Scotland and Northern Ireland
- 11 Representation, memory and fiction
- 12 1945 and postwar continuities
- 13 Contradictions in a countryside at war
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Writing food security in the mid-twentieth century
- 1 Prelude: The 1930s and the origins and purpose of state intervention in farming
- 2 Rural society on the eve of war
- 3 The arrival of the county committees and their structures
- 4 The membership of the county committees and their role in farm surveillance
- 5 Networking the rural community
- 6 Dispossessing farmers in England and Wales during and after the war
- 7 Power and tragedy: The sad case of Ray Walden
- 8 Reclamation: Environmental and landscape transformation, 1939–45
- 9 Reclamation: The Fenland and coastal marshes
- 10 Wartime farming and state control in Scotland and Northern Ireland
- 11 Representation, memory and fiction
- 12 1945 and postwar continuities
- 13 Contradictions in a countryside at war
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- The Battle of the FieldsRural Community and Authority in Britain during the Second World War, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014