The gardens of the British working class /

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Author / Creator:Willes, Margaret, author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675650
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ISBN:9780300206258
0300206259
9780300187847
030018784X
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"This ... illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers' cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, and reveals the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played--and continues to play--an integral role in everyday British life."--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: Willes, Margaret. Gardens of the British working class. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] 9780300187847
Standard no.:10.12987/9780300206258