Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136620273
First Published in 2005. This book is a history of the techniques of livestock husbandry in Britain and of the evolution of British breeds of domesticated animals of the farm. Adequate background on the business of buying and selling stock and of the influence of the market upon pastoral policy has been included throughout. As such, this title will be of use to new students and those with an existing background in the history British livestock husbandry.
Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415382700
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136601341
First Published in 2005. History books have told us for far too long that farming in Britain was, in the eighteenth century, Tull's drill, Townshend's turnips, and Bakewell's metamorphosis of the cow and sheep; in the nineteenth century, corn laws, Coke's enlightened Norfolk squire-dom, and the collapse of the cereal market; and in both centuries, enclosures. In this volume the author has taken the evidence, sieved and analysed it. The result of the analysis may, or may not, show the animal husbandry at least of these two centuries in a truer light. The present book is a sequel to the author’s History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700.
Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Livestock
ISBN :
Author : Stephen J. G. Hall
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781138865389
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Debby Banham
Publisher :
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0199207941
Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, the authors employ a wide range of evidence to investigate how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other agricultural products that sustained English economy, society, and culture before the Norman Conquest. The first part of the volume draws on written and pictorial sources, archaeology, place-names, and the history of the English language to discover what crops and livestock people raised, and what tools and techniques were used to produce them. In part two, using a series of landscape studies - place-names, maps, and the landscape itself, the authors explore how these techniques might have been combined into working agricultural regimes in different parts of the country. A picture emerges of an agriculture that changed from an essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to what was recognisably the beginning of a tradition that only ended with the Second World War. Anglo-Saxon farming was not only sustainable, but infinitely adaptable to different soils and geology, and to a climate changing as unpredictably as it is today.
Author : Rebecca J. H. Woods
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1469634678
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock "native," Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.
Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4319 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1000144364
The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author : Hilda Kean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0429889240
The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships. Divided into three parts, the Companion takes both a theoretical and practical approach to a field that is emerging as a prominent area of study. Animals and the Practice of History considers established practices of history, such as political history, public history and cultural memory, and how animal-human history can contribute to them. Problems and Paradigms identifies key historiographical issues to the field with contributors considering the challenges posed by topics such as agency, literature, art and emotional attachment. The final section, Themes and Provocations, looks at larger themes within the history of animal-human relationships in more depth, with contributions covering topics that include breeding, war, hunting and eating. As it is increasingly recognised that nonhuman actors have contributed to the making of history, The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on animal-human history and surrounding debates.
