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The Gardens of the British Working Class

Af: Margaret Willes Engelsk Paperback

The Gardens of the British Working Class

Af: Margaret Willes Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 424
ISBN-13: 9780300212358
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0300212356
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 25 apr 2015
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: Yale University Press
Oplagsdato: 25 apr 2015
Forfatter(e): Margaret Willes
Forfatter(e) Margaret Willes

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780300212358

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 424

Udgave

Længde 33mm

Bredde 136mm

Højde 215mm

Udg. Dato 25 apr 2015

Oplagsdato 25 apr 2015

Forlag Yale University Press

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