Table of Contents

Preface by the general editor; Tables; Abbreviations; Weights and measures; Preface; 1. Agricultural production in 1914; 2. Markets for the agricultural output; 3. Types of farming; 4. Land and people; 5. Agriculture and the outbreak of war; 6. Policy for agriculture, 1915–16; 7. The food shortage and agricultural policy 1916–18; 8. Price control and agricultural policy, 1918–20; 9. The post-war years, 1919–21; 10. Prices, costs and policy, 1921–9; 11. Changes in farming practice; 12. Farming inputs and outputs; 13. The economic depression, 1929–33; 14. Agricultural policy, 1929–37; 15. Practice with science; 16. Changes in farming practice; 17. The waygoing; 18. The land; Selected bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

Volume VIII of the Agrarian History (1978) provides a technical, social and economic history of rural England and Wales between 1914 and 1939.