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Alternative Agriculture: A History
Author | : Joan Thirsk |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1997-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191586811 |
People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.
Shadow Warrior
Author | : Randall B. Woods |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0465021948 |
Explores the life and career of William Egan Colby, one of the most controversial figures of the postwar period: World War II commando, Cold War spy, Saigon CIA station chief, and eventual CIA director under Nixon and Ford, he played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events in 20th-century history.
The British National Bibliography
Author | : Arthur James Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : |
The Physics of Musical Instruments
Author | : Neville H. Fletcher |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 2013-11-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387216030 |
While the history of musical instruments is nearly as old as civilisation itself, the science of acoustics is quite recent. By understanding the physical basis of how instruments are used to make music, one hopes ultimately to be able to give physical criteria to distinguish a fine instrument from a mediocre one. At that point science may be able to come to the aid of art in improving the design and performance of musical instruments. As yet, many of the subtleties in musical sounds of which instrument makers and musicians are aware remain beyond the reach of modern acoustic measurements. This book describes the results of such acoustical investigations - fascinating intellectual and practical exercises. Addressed to readers with a reasonable grasp of physics who are not put off by a little mathematics, this book discusses most of the traditional instruments currently in use in Western music. A guide for all who have an interest in music and how it is produced, as well as serving as a comprehensive reference for those undertaking research in the field.
Mud, Muscle, and Miracles
Author | : C. A. Bartholomew |
Publisher | : Naval Historical Center |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |