British Agriculture In The First World War Rle The First World War

Author : Peter Dewey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317703952

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British Agriculture in the First World War (RLE The First World War) by Peter Dewey Pdf

This volume comprehensively describes how British farmers coped with the problems of shortage of labour and other factors of production, as well as assessing how well agriculture performed as a supplier of food to the nation. Use of previously neglected records provides much evidence on issues such as the deployment of substitute labour and the introduction of the tractor into British farming for the first time. Challenging accepted view on the period, the author shows that shortages of labour and other factors of production had only a slight effect on farm output and the national food supply.

Author : Margaret Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317704232

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British Food Policy During the First World War (RLE The First World War) by Margaret Barnett Pdf

Because of the exceptionally high proportion of imports in Britain’s food supply and the determined efforts of the enemy to sever the supply lines, efficient management of food resources was an essential element in the British national war effort. This volume was the first comprehensive study of this vital aspect of government strategy and fills a gap in the historiography of this period. This volume provides a balanced picture by drawing together the diverse elements that went into food policy: economic and social trends, international trade relations and labour issues. The author also traces the evolution of food policy during the pre-war planning period and the early part of the war, and analyses the roles of the United States and the labour organizations.

Author : Avner Offer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015183554

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The First World War by Avner Offer Pdf

In this book Offer presents a new interpretation of World War I, weaving together the economic and social history of the English-speaking world, the Pacific basin, and Germany, with the development of food production and consumption. In the special field of United States history, Offer shows the effect of American agricultural power on world politics, both before and after Word War I. He describes how the social institutions of American agriculture undermined farming in Britain, and forced the British Empire to rely increasingly on overseas imports of food. Detailing the role of agrarian production and comsumption in British and German defense, Offer examines the moral and legal implications of setting up whole societies as strategic targets.

Author : Margaret Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317704225

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British Food Policy During the First World War (RLE The First World War) by Margaret Barnett Pdf

Because of the exceptionally high proportion of imports in Britain’s food supply and the determined efforts of the enemy to sever the supply lines, efficient management of food resources was an essential element in the British national war effort. This volume was the first comprehensive study of this vital aspect of government strategy and fills a gap in the historiography of this period. This volume provides a balanced picture by drawing together the diverse elements that went into food policy: economic and social trends, international trade relations and labour issues. The author also traces the evolution of food policy during the pre-war planning period and the early part of the war, and analyses the roles of the United States and the labour organizations.

Author : Paul Brassley,Yves Segers,Leen van Molle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415522168

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War, Agriculture, and Food by Paul Brassley,Yves Segers,Leen van Molle Pdf

This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World War on the European countryside, and the impact of food and agricultural problems on the outcome of the war.

Author : Llewellyn Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138975451

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Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918 (Rle the First World War) by Llewellyn Woodward Pdf

This volume covers the essential facts about Britain s role in the First World War, not only militarily but also from a domestic point of view: the political and economic organisation of Britain for war, the extension of state control, the problems set by shortages of shipping and food. The book goes beyond the military defeat of Germany and her Allies to the armistice of November 11, 1918, the Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. "

Author : Brian Short,C. Watkins,John Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123279742

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The Front Line of Freedom by Brian Short,C. Watkins,John Martin Pdf

This book, drawing together the work of 15 scholars, is the first attempt to discover what really happened during the war in British agriculture. It shows just how closely directed agriculture and individual farmers were in wartime, and the determination with which uncooperative or 'failing' farmers might be dispossessed. It describes the tensions between agriculture and the military, showing how the ploughing up campaign added land to the national farm but just at the time when the military were taking it for airfields and training grounds. This revelatory book challenges received wisdom about farming in wartime. It is essential reading for all interested in the evolution of twentieth-century farming and in the historical origins of farming's present predicament.

Author : Mary Fraser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3031587421

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The British Police and Home Food Production during the Great War by Mary Fraser Pdf

This book explores the role of the British Police in home food production during the First World War, a critical time when decreasing food imports threatened population starvation around the country. Drawing from the police’s most popular weekly journal, the book provides insights into policemen’s lives, the political context in which they worked, and the pressures on police forces throughout Britain during the Great War. Unlike neighbouring countries in Europe, Britain avoided major food riots due to government control of farming from December 1916, which prioritised agriculture to feed the nation. The police force released over 400 policemen in England and Scotland to serve as ploughmen from March 1917 for around two months. Almost a third of policemen throughout Britain had previous agricultural backgrounds and so were welcomed by farmers as experienced workers. This book illustrates not only why the food crisis arose and the state of British farming during the war, but it also sheds light on how individual police forces were approached and encouraged to release their policemen, at a time when police forces themselves were critically short of staff due to recruitment into the war. The author discusses how the release of policemen into agriculture as first responders benefitted the police and provided surveillance over home food production in the national interest.

Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816810007

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History of the Second World War by Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Pdf

Author : B. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137363909

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The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain by B. White Pdf

Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears that Britain's Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by their wartime experiences.

Author : Søren Kjeldsen-Kragh
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8763001942

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The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development by Søren Kjeldsen-Kragh Pdf

Annotation "This book addresses readers who are interested in economic history and the role of agriculture in economic development. The first part of the book describes agricultural progress in Europe and the USA since 1750, when modern societies began to develop. Although there were significant differences from country to country, agriculture was an engine of growth during the period 1750-1914." "The second part of the book builds a model of the development process. The author emphasises that it is not possible to explain development without looking simultaneously at the resources, technology, institutions and attitudes prevalent in a country."--Jacket.

Author : Benjamin Horace Hibbard
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230052682

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Effects of the Great War Upon Agriculture in the United States and Great Britain by Benjamin Horace Hibbard Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... Food Administration has worked through every possible established means of reaching the people, creating the State food administrations as an intermediary. The leading organizations coordinated in this work are the following: 1. State food administrations. 2. Trade organizations and commercial concerns. 3. Educational institutions. 4. Women's organizations. 5. Libraries. 6. Religious and fraternal organizations. 7. Hotels and restaurants. 8. Transportation companies. The State Food Administrations of each State are responsible to the State's administration division of the federal Food Administration, and connects the federal authorities with the State and 1 The discussion of these two topics is based mainly on Conservation and Regulation in the United States during the World War, p. 70 ff. Charles R. Van Hise. county Councils of Defense. The State Food Administrator is in nearly all cases the embodiment of authority to all the people of the State. Occasionally there is a direct appeal to the federal Food Administration, as in the case of the milk price questions during the winter of 1917-18. Trade Organizations. The trade organizations dealing primarily in food materials almost at once took an interest in the great questions of food conservation and very generally manifested a desire to make themselves useful. Grocers' organizations representing approximately 360,000 individuals agreed to lend their aid. Representatives of these organizations adopted the following resolutions: (1) We will, whether licensed or not, cooperate with the United States Food Administration in every way possible to insure the enforcement of its rules and regulations and the success of its conservation plans, and deliver to the consumers of the United States the...

Author : Stephen Broadberry,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448352

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The Economics of World War I by Stephen Broadberry,Mark Harrison Pdf

This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.

Author : B. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137363909

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The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain by B. White Pdf

Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears that Britain's Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by their wartime experiences.

Author : Benjamin Horace Hibbard
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89044738797

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Effects of the Great War Upon Agriculture in the United States and Great Britain by Benjamin Horace Hibbard Pdf

At head of title: Carnegie endowment for international peace. Division of economics and history.