Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain, 1918-1939

by Clare V.J. Griffiths

The common reputation of the British Labour Party has always been as 'a thing of the town', an essentially urban phenomenon which has failed to engage with the rural electorate or identify itself with rural issues. Yet during the inter-war years, Labour viewed the countryside as a crucial electoral battleground - even claiming that the party could never form a majority administration without winning a significant number of seats across rural Britain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199287430
• ISBN13: 9780199287437
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.7"