After the ruins : restoring the countryside of Northern France after the Great War / Hugh Clout
Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 1996. 1st edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Bibliotheca Domestica. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #390972
ISBN: 0859894916
Physical description; 332 pp.: illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Contents; 1. The War-Torn Zone -- 2. The Intensity of Devastation -- 3. The Start of Emergency Action -- 4. The Service des Travaux de Premiere Urgence -- 5. Motoculture -- 6. The Office de Reconstitution Agricole -- 7. Achievements of the Emergency Phase -- 8. Principles of Compensation, Rules of Reconstruction -- 9. Reconstruction Cooperatives -- 10. Land and Livelihood: Continuity and Change -- 11. Toward a Balance Sheet. Subjects; World War, 1914-1918 Destruction and pillage France, Northern. Reconstruction (1914-1939) France, Northern. Agriculture and state. Rural conditions and development. Reclamation of land France.
Price: €125.00