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Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden Paperback – May 17, 2011

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War is the natural occupation of man … war-and gardening. - Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon, 1918

In the common public perception, contemporary gardening is understood as suburban, as leisure activity, as television makeover opportunity. Its origins are seen as religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden), military (the clipped lawn, the ha-ha and defensive ditches), aristocratic or monarchical (the stately home, the Royal Horticultural Society). Radical Gardening travels an alternative route, through history and across landscape, linking propagation with propaganda. For everyday garden life is not only patio, barbecue, white picket fence, topiary, herbaceous border.… From window box to veggie box, from political plot to flower power, this book uncovers and celebrates moments, movements, gestures, of a people's approach to gardens and gardening. It weaves together garden history with the counterculture, stories of individual plants with discussion of government policy, the social history of campaign groups with the pleasure and dirt of hands in the earth, as well as original interviews alongside media, pop and art references, to offer an informing and inspiring new take on an old subject.

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224 pages
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English
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Frances Lincoln
Publication date

May 17, 2011
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1 x 1 x 1 inches
ISBN-10

0711230307
ISBN-13

978-0711230309
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George McKay is a leading British author on aspects of alternative culture through music, protest, lifestyle. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. His books include Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties, DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain and Glastonbury: A Very English Fair. He is also co-editor of the academic journal Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest (Routledge), as well as a fairly frequent contributor to BBC radio. He has appeared on numerous television programmes, and written for publications such as the Guardian, Independent, and New Statesman. He lives in Lancaster.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Frances Lincoln (May 17, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0711230307
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0711230309
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1 x 1 x 1 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,998,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #612 in Gardening & Horticulture Essays (Books)
- #150,462 in Social Sciences (Books)

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George McKay is a writer on alternative cultures, popular music/media, cultural politics, disability. From jazz to punk and festivals. Via gardening. He also plays double bass, and has a small west-facing town garden in Norwich. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland though mostly raised in Norfolk, England. In academic life he is Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, having previously been a professor at Salford and UCLan. George's website is at https://georgemckay.org. Twitter: @george_mckay.

He is lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock, which *should* be out in 2023. His most recents books are on festivals: ed. The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media Culture (2015), and with Emma Webster, 25 Years of the London Jazz Festival (2017; free download via his website). He is currently working on a monograph about music, environment, activism, and climate emergency, provisionally entitled Crazy Horses.

Recent reviews. The Pop Festival (2015): ‘truly compelling work’—Pop Matters; ‘a five-start treasure trove of ideas’—Record Collector. Shakin' All Over (2013): 'a brash, brilliant and fist-pumping book' (Popular Music & Society), 'a first for the field' (Times Higher), 'genre-shaping' (Wordgathering). Radical Gardening (2011): a Book of the Year (Independent on Sunday), 'a truly important book' (Times Higher), 'highly original and compelling' (Daily Telegraph).

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Jane Smith

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badger

Not fooling anyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2015

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I bought this for my anarcho-punky husband, thinking it might get him to do the bloody garden. It didn't - he saw through the ruse. But it's a good book nonetheless.

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Ben

A excellent review of how gardening has been influencial in recent history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2014

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This is a great book that tells the story of gardening's influence on recent history.
It is well researched and well produced. It is a nice book to read with great photos through out.

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scullion

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2015

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5* What else to say?

Rod Howard

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2015

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