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Brook Farm. 1841-7. Massachussets commune. Ripley. Hawthorne.
Fourier, Charles. 1772-1837. French socialist philosopher. His utopia was attempted in US, Brook Farm, a voluntary cooperative.
Ripley, George. 1802-80. US utopian. Brook Farm.
Wiggin, Kate. 1856-1923. US author. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Brooke, James. 1803-68. British “White Raja”; family ruled Sarawak 1841-1946.
Donnybrook. 1204-1855. Irish county fair renowned for drunken brawls.
Mann, Thomas. 1875-1955. German/US novelist. Opposed Nazism. Buddenbrooks 1900. Magic Mountain 1927. Death in Venice 1929. Dr Faustus.
Roebling, John. 1806-69. US civil enginerer. First steel cable suspension bridges. Began Brooklyn Bridge.
Sarawak. 15C Brunei. 1841 Independent (Brooke). 1941 Japanese occupy. 1946 British Crown Colony. 1963 Malaysia.
Taylor, Brook. 1685-1731. English mathematician. Theorem of Differential Calculus 1715.
Clearance of Scottish Highlands. 1790-1850. Increased sheep farming displaces tenant crofters.
Constable, John. 1776-1837. English Naturalist landscape painter. Hay Wain 1821. Valley Farm. Waterloo Bridge 1831.
Crofter. Scottish tenant farmer with right of common pasture.
Diggers. 1649-50. English communal Puritan farmers. “True Levellers”.
Dust Bowl. 1930s. US plains suffered erosion, dust storms, due to drought, wind, poor farm practice.
Enclosure. Land divided, fenced for better yield, causing hardships for smaller farmers, peasants. English 15-16, 18-19C, Europe 18-20C.
Farmers-General. 17C French financiers who bought right to collect taxes for a fixed fee.
Granger Movement. 19C. US farmers’ co-ops, political lobbies.
Irish Land Acts. 1870-1903. British legislation for tenant farmers vs landlords.
Orwell, George. 1903-50. English satirical novelist and social critic: Animal Farm 1945, 1984 1948.
Shays, Daniel. c1747-1825. Led Massachussets farmers in rebellion 1786-7 for lower taxes. Defeated.
Tolpuddle Martyrs. 1834. 6 British farmworkers transported despite protests for union organizing.