Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening

This volume is the third in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. It is a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary and this set provides the reader with a variety of ways in which to read gardens.

This volume is the third ina in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women and the professionalisation of gardening, alongside industrialisation and the development of leisure and mass markets were all elements that contributed to and were influenced by the evolution of gardens. It is a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary and this set provides the reader with a variety of ways in which to read gardens through recognition of how they were conceived and experienced as they developed. Material is primarily derived from Britain, with Europe, USA, Australia, India, China and Japan also featuring, and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.

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