Main entry:

Nilsen, Micheline.

Title & Author:

The working man's green space : allotment gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919 / Micheline Nilsen.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Description:

xiv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Restrictions:

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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Definitions and commonalities -- Allotments in England -- Kleingarten in Germany -- Jardins ouvriers in France -- Is there an aesthetics of allotments? -- Allotments and the design professions -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- List of organizations and terms.

Summary:

"With 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. Standing at the intersection of a number of disciplines--including landscape studies, horticulture, and urban history-- The Working Man's Green Space 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."-- Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9780813935089 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813935083 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813935379 (e-book)
0813935377 (e-book)

Subject:

Allotment gardens England History 19th century.
Allotment gardens England History 20th century.
Allotment gardens France History 19th century.
Allotment gardens France History 20th century.
Allotment gardens Germany History 19th century.
Allotment gardens Germany History 20th century.
Landscape design England History 19th century.
Landscape design England History 20th century.
Landscape design France History 19th century.
Landscape design France History 20th century.
Landscape design Germany History 19th century.
Landscape design Germany History 20th century.
Jardins familiaux Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Jardins familiaux Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle.
Jardins familiaux France Histoire 19e siècle.
Jardins familiaux France Histoire 20e siècle.
Jardins familiaux Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Jardins familiaux Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Aménagement paysager Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Aménagement paysager Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle.
Aménagement paysager France Histoire 19e siècle.
Aménagement paysager France Histoire 20e siècle.
Aménagement paysager Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Aménagement paysager Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Allotment gardens
Landscape design
Kleingarten
England
France
Germany
Deutschland
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History

Host item:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286744
Call No.: BIB 227215
Status: Available