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The Gardens of the British Working Class
Taschenbuch von Margaret Willes
Sprache: Englisch

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This magnificently illustrated peopleâ¿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 workersâ¿ 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 playedâ¿and continues to playâ¿an integral role in everyday British life.
This magnificently illustrated peopleâ¿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 workersâ¿ 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 playedâ¿and continues to playâ¿an integral role in everyday British life.
Über den Autor
Margaret Willes is an enthusiastic gardener and the former publisher at the National Trust.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 424
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780300212358
ISBN-10: 0300212356
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Willes, Margaret
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Maße: 216 x 136 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Willes
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2015
Gewicht: 0,58 kg
preigu-id: 105032611
Über den Autor
Margaret Willes is an enthusiastic gardener and the former publisher at the National Trust.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 424
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780300212358
ISBN-10: 0300212356
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Willes, Margaret
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Maße: 216 x 136 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Willes
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2015
Gewicht: 0,58 kg
preigu-id: 105032611
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