| Other author/creator | Ross, Linda M., editor. |
| Other author/creator | Navickas, Katrina, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Kelly, Matthew, 1975- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Anderson, Ben (Lecturer in 20th century European history), editor. |
| Portion of title |
Rural modernity in Britain |
| Series |
Proceedings of the British Academy
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 256. ^A299844
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Linda M. Ross, Katrina Navickas, Matthew Kelly, and Ben Anderson -- 2. In-between landscapes / Jeremy Buchardt -- 3. Rural modernity in Britain: landscape, literature, nostalgia / Kristin Bluemel -- 4. Seeing like a quarryman: landscape, quarrying, and competing visions of rural England along Hadrian's Wall, 1930-1960 / Gareth Roddy -- 5. Building amenity in areas of non-outstanding natural beauty in the Southern Pennines / Katrina Navickas -- 6. The post-war power station and the persistence of an English landscape tradition / Ian Waites -- 7. England and the isovist / Moa Carlson -- 8. The view from the land, 1947-1968: 'modernity' in British agriculture, farm, and nation / Karen Sayer -- 9. Landcapes of military modernity: from 'eyesores' to national heritage? / Paul Readman -- 10. Nuclear narratives: rural modernity, identity, and heritage in the highlands and islands / Linda M. Ross -- 11. 'Think rural: act now': the state of the countryside and rural arts residencies in the 1970s and 1980s / Ysanne Holt -- 12. What happens when rural modernity ceases to be modern? / Ben Anderson and Matthew Kelly -- 13. The new 'new landscapes': a personal view / Tim O'Riordan. |
| Abstract |
"In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materially transformed in the post-war decades. Reservoirs, power stations, television and radio-transmitter masts, electricity and telephone pylons, as well as local authority housing and new or improved roads, produced a new rurality. So too did state-subsidised agricultural intensification, wider public access to the countryside, and environmentally protective measures. These included landscape designations such as National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Central to Fairbrother's approach was the concomitant transformation in how British people interacted with these new landscapes in an age of increased mobility. This new edited collection of essays, New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on Fairbrother's concerns. It examines how the changing relationship between government, state, and citizen gave rise to a distinct rural modernity during the middle decades of the twentieth century" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP5.00 0. |
| ISBN | 9780197267455 |
| ISBN | 0197267459 hardcover |
