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Back to the Land

Back to the Land

Marsh, Jan

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General SociologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0571274749
ISBN13: 9780571274741
Publisher: Faber Finds
Published: Dec 9 2010
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this most interesting book Jan Marsh examines the paradox underlying the transformation of England from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry. By 1880 that had happened irreversibly and yet while the rural population was rapidly declining the back-to-the land movement began to pervade all areas of life and thought. Jan Marsh chronicles the many manifestations of the pastoral impulse. From simple nostalgia to sophisticated political thought she looks at agrarian communes the folk-song movement peasant arts garden cities the reclamation of common lands schools dress and diet and at the life and thought of such key figures as John Ruskin William Morris and Edward Carpenter.

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