{"product_id":"the-working-mans-green-space-allotment-gardens-in-england-france-and-germany-1870-1919-hardcover","title":"The Working Man's Green Space: Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMicheline Nilsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrooks M. Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained impetus in the nineteenth century as rural workers crowded into industrial cities, was for a long time primarily a repository of ideas concerning social reform, hygienic improvement, and class mobility. Complementing efforts by worker cooperatives, unions, and social legislation, the provision of small garden plots offered some relief from bleak urban living conditions. Urban planners often thought of such gardens as a way to insert \"lungs\" into a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding at the intersection of a number of disciplines--including landscape studies, horticulture, and urban history-- \u003ci\u003eThe Working Man's Green Space\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the development of allotment gardens in European countries in the nearly half-century between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when the French Third Republic, the German Empire, and the late Victorian era in England saw the development of unprecedented measures to improve the lot of the \"laboring classes.\" Nilsen shows how community gardening is inscribed within a social contract that differs from country to country, but how there is also an underlying aesthetic and social significance to these gardens that transcends national borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicheline Nilsen is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University South Bend. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRailways and Western European Capitals: Studies of Implantation in London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.4 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757794459936,"sku":"9780813935089","price":81.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1507ad3a41238f80ccb4c0b740d651c3.webp?v=1780111976","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-working-mans-green-space-allotment-gardens-in-england-france-and-germany-1870-1919-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}