J R Wordie.

J R Wordie, ed Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939 recent York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. vii, 260 $5995 ISBN 0-312-23435-X

In for a like reason much of British political history since the early nineteenth hundred agriculture has appeared as Banquo's ghost; a mover of results but rarely apparent to most numerous of the political actors. There has been a corresponding lack of attention paid to the relations between agriculture and British politics, which is more than made up for in this surpassingly welcome volume.

The background is locate by Wordie's introduction. This is deftly assembled, and

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