HARVESTS OF CHANGE
Written by Nicholas Goddard
Published by Quiller Press
in 1988
ISBN: 0907621961
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HARVESTS OF CHANGE
Written by Nicholas Goddard.
Stock no. 1801175
1st.
1988.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
The Royal Agricultural Society of England 1838-1988. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0907621961. Boards clean and bright. Spine bumped. A few light marks to endpapers and text block else contents fine. Yellow price-cut pictorial wrapper is heavily faded at spine and top edges.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Author's Preface and Acknowledgements
- PART I: THE FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIETY
- Introduction
- Antecedent Institutions
- The Context of the Society's Formation
- The Early Development of the Society
- PART II: THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY
- 'Storm Centres' of Innovation - the Early Royal Shows
- 'Breaking the Closed-circuit' - the Journal and Agricultural Science
- Agricultural Consultancy
- Some Issues and Controversies
- The Later Nineteenth Century
- PART III: FROM PARK ROYAL TO STONELEIGH 1903-1963
- The Failure of Park Royal
- From the First World War to the Centenary Show 1914-1939
- The Society in Wartime
- Post-war Resumption of Activities
- Post-war Research and Education
- The Character of the Post-war shows 1947-1962
- The Route to a Permanent Showground
- 'A Great New Concept'
- PART IV: THE SOCIETY AT STONELEIGH: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
- Establishment of Stoneleigh
- The Development of the National Agricultural Centre
- Demonstrations and Technology Transfer at Stoneleigh
- Royal Shows at Stoneleigh: From Summer Pageant to International Agricultural Exposition
- Education: The Rural Community and Environment; the Society's 'Learned Role'
- The Sesquicentenary of the RASE
- Notes and References
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index