Alternative agriculture : a history from the Black Death to the present day / Joan Thirsk.

People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" c...

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Main Author: Thirsk, Joan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©1997.
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