The Real Agricultural Revolution - 9781783276356

The Real Agricultural RevolutionThe Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985\nAuthor(s): Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, Matt Lobley, David Harvey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783276356, 978-1783276356\nSynopsis\nAn investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change.\n\nWINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize\nWINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award \n\n\""This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted change on the ground to offer an incisive account of the complex technological, political and cultural developments which gave rise to some of the greatest changes in English f.