{"product_id":"9798216387824","title":"Gardening in the British Isles (1830–1950) Growing Agency in a Democratising Society","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCritical Plant Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eGardening in the British Isles (1830–1950)\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eGrowing Agency in a Democratising Society\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDouglas A. Vakoch | Clémence Laburthe-Tolra | Aurélien Wasilewski\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eNature \/ Environmental Conservation \u0026amp; Protection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGardening in the British Isles (1830–1950). Growing Agency in a Democratising Society \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores the power dynamics that took root and flourished in nineteenth- and twentieth-century gardens in the United Kingdom. \u003c\/b\u003eExamining a wide range of gardens (from private plots and nurseries to school gardens and public parks), gardeners (artists and writers, allotment holders and landlords, designers and landscapers, urban planners and slum dwellers, horticultural educators and pupils, nursery proprietors and plant customers, social reformists and trade unionists), gardening accounts (press articles, essays, diaries and novels), as well as practices across England, Ireland and Scotland from the Victorian era to the post-war period, the book uncovers the aesthetic, social and political discourses that grew in the garden and underpinned various modes of control, democratisation or self-assertion. Considering gardens as physical places, designed compositions, and spaces in motion, i.e. \u003ci\u003ein situ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ede visu\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ede motu\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGardening in the British Isles (1830–50) \u003c\/i\u003eprobes the social history of gardens and gardening, showing how social evolutions within the garden mirrored and even shaped collective imagination, horticultural taste and literary representation.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClémence Laburthe-Tolra\u003c\/b\u003e holds a PhD in British Literature. She is currently teaching anglophone literature as well as translation at Université d'Angers, France, and is an Associate Member of the research unit EMMA at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAurélien Wasilewski \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216387824\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331268280460,"sku":"9798216387824","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798216387824","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}