Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939

ROSS WORDIE is a Lecturer in Early Modern Social and Economic History at Reading University. His publications include Estate Management in Eighteenth-Century England (1982) and with C.W.Chalkin Town and Countryside: the English Landowner in the National Economy, 1660-1860 (1989). He has contributed to The Economic History Review, Past and Present, Research in Economic History, Twentieth-Century British History, and The Agrarian History of England and Wales.

Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.R.Wordie Perceptions and Reality: The Effects of the Corn Laws and their Repeal in England, 1815-1906; J.R.Wordie 'Preventing Ourselves from being Plundered by our Betters': Thomas Perronet Thompson and the Corn Laws; M.Turner Land, Labour, and Politics: Parliament and Allotment Provision, 1830-1870; J.Burchardt The Agricultural Interest and its Critics, 1840-1914; D.Martin No Longer the Farmer's Friend? The Tory Party and Protectionism in England, 1880-1914; E.Green Agricultural Policy and the National Farmer's Union, 1908-1939; J.Brown 'Red Tape Farm'? Visions of a Socialist Agriculture in 1920s and 1930s Britain; C.Griffiths Bibliography Index