Scattering Plenty

Author: Jim Dixon

United Kingdom, Great Britain | 20th century | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 | Social & cultural history | Political ideologies | Nature Conservation law | Environmentalist thought & ideology | Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations | Conservation of the environment | Agriculture & farming | The countryside, country life

Published on 21^st March 2024 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 8 Plates, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
165mm x 242mm x 28mm | 572g

At the outset of the twentieth century, the management of the British countryside was the preserve of powerful aristocratic estates, the ground worked by labourers toiling in time-honoured tradition.

Scattering Plenty tells of the birth of modern farming through wartime, post-war reconstruction and four decades embroiled in European countryside policies. It follows the stories of key figures driving change; as the face of the countryside evolves, it charts their fight for nature and natural beauty, and traces the gradual control that the state and democratic agents had on the land.

Their stories evoke the landscape of Britain, and take the reader inside the corridors of power in Whitehall and Brussels, where farmers and environmentalists jostled for influence. Who were the people scattering plenty across our land, and who made the modern countryside?In Scattering Plenty, you’ll gain a deeper appreciation for the profound legacy of agriculture in shaping Britain’s past, present and future, as Jim Dixon delves into the lives of those who shaped the modern countryside and made space for the deeply rooted bucolic haven that millions enjoy today.