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02983aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 265B426A033A11E8972C924897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180127021036 008 140425s2014 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781843839378 020 $a 1843839377 035 $a (OCoLC)878299530 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d CDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d NKM $d CLU $d COO $d OCLCF $d ZCU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-uk-en 050 4 $a D744.7.G7 $b S46 2014 082 04 $a 352.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Short, Brian, $d 1944- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88163894 245 10 $a Battle of the fields : $b rural community and authority in Britain during the second world war. 264 1 $a Woodbridge : $b Boydell Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xii, 468 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24cm 505 0 $a Frontcover; 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 505 8 $a 8 Reclamation: Environmental and landscape transformation, 1939-459 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 520 $a This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and to those who continue to share a fascination for the Second World War, in particular the 'home front'. It will also demonstrate to all who are anxious about food security in the modern age how this question was dealt with 70 years ago. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-446) and index. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Social aspects $z Great Britain. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119697 651 0 $a England $x Social conditions $y 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043317 651 0 $a England $x Rural conditions $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Food supply $z Great Britain. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119686 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 $a 1939 - 1945 $2 fast 650 7 $a Food supply. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00931196 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031709.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=265B426A033A11E8972C924897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search