The Gardens of the British Working Class

 

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Online sinds
23 mei 2018
EAN
9780300212358
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
424 pagina's

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This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers' cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, and reveals the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played-and continues to play-an integral role in everyday British life.

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Categorie
Politiek (Tip! Bekijk de top 10)
Artikelnummer
1129202
Online sinds
23 mei 2018
EAN
9780300212358

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
424 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
april 2015
Afmetingen
23,4 x 15,6 x 3,7 cm