{"product_id":"9780141981703","title":"An Economic History of the English Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Floud, Roderick, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/11\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Gardens: descriptions\/history\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141981703\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"strike\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescription:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eAt least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dreaming of gardens. Yet in all the thousands of books about them, this is the first to address seriously the question of how much gardens and gardening have cost, and to work out the place of gardens in the economic, as well as the horticultural, life of the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIt is a new kind of gardening history. Beginning with the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Roderick Floud describes the role of the monarchy and central and local government in creating gardens, as well as that of the (generally aristocratic or plutocratic) builders of the great gardens of Stuart, Georgian and Victorian England. He considers the designers of these gardens as both artists and businessmen - often earning enormous sums by modern standards, matched by the nurserymen and plant collectors who supplied their plants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe uncovers the lives and rewards of working gardeners, the domestic gardens that came with the growth of suburbs and the impact of gardening on technical developments from man-made lakes to central heating.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eAN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN shows the extraordinary commitment of money as well as time that the English have made to gardens and gardening over three and a half centuries. It reveals the connections of our gardens to the re-establishment of the English monarchy, the national debt, transport during the Industrial Revolution, the new industries of steam, glass and iron, and the built environment that is now all around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a fresh perspective on the history of England and will open the eyes of gardeners - and garden visitors - to an unexpected dimension of what they do.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37027752771737,"sku":"9780141981703","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780141981703.jpg?v=1604670574","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9780141981703","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}