A History Of British Livestock Husbandry 1700 1900

Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136601341
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Livestock Husbandry, 1700-1900 written by Robert Trow-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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Author : Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136620346
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Livestock Husbandry, to 1700 written by Robert Trow-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bert Theunissen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487535392
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty or Statistics written by Bert Theunissen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field. The livestock breeds that take centre stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, Beauty or Statistics shows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analysed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.

Author : Margaret E. Derry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487511140
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horses in Society written by Margaret E. Derry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated a intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism. Derry elucidates the increasingly complex horse world by looking at the international trade in army horses, the regulations put in place by different countries to enforce better horse breeding, and general aspects of the dynamics of the horse market. Because it is a story of how certain groups attempted to control the market for horses, by protecting their breeding activities or 'patenting' their work, Horses in Society provides valuable background information to the rapidly developing present-day problem of biological ownership. Derry's fascinating study is also a story of the evolution of animal medicine and humanitarian movements, and of international relations, particularly between Canada and the United States.

Author : Debby Banham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667315
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming written by Debby Banham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Valerie Porter
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845934660
Total Pages : 1107 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding, 2 Volume Pack written by Valerie Porter and published by CABI. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding describes breeds of livestock worldwide as well as a range of breed-related subjects such as husbandry, health and behaviour. This definitive and prestigious reference work presents easily accessible information on domestication (including wild ancestors and related species), genetics and breeding, livestock produce and markets, as well as breed conservation and the cultural and social aspects of livestock farming. Written by renowned livestock authorities, these volumes draw on the authors' lifelong interest and involvement in livestock breeds of the world, presenting a unique, comprehensive and fully cross-referenced guide to cattle, buffalo, horses, pigs, sheep, asses, goats, camelids, yak and other domesticants.

Author : Philip Walling
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847658032
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counting Sheep written by Philip Walling and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheep are the thread that runs through the history of the English countryside. Our fortunes were once founded on sheep, and this book tells a story of wool and money and history, of merchants and farmers and shepherds, of English yeomen and how they got their freedom, and above all, of the soil. Sheep have helped define our culture and topography, impacting on everything from accent and idiom, architecture, roads and waterways, to social progression and wealth. With his eye for the idiosyncratic, Philip meets the native breeds that thrive in this country; he tells stories about each breed, meets their shepherds and owners, learns about their past - and confronts the present realities of sheep farming. Along the way, Philip meets the people of the countryside and their many professions: the mole-catchers, the stick-makers, the tobacco-twisters and clog-wrights. He explores this artisan heritage as he re-discovers the countryside, and finds a lifestyle parallel to modern existence, struggling to remain unchanged - and at its heart, always sheep.

Author : P J Perry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136581189
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Agriculture written by P J Perry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound Changes took place in British Agriculture between 1875 and 1914. After the prosperous years of the mid-nineteenth century came a period of difficulty for landowners and farmers, with falling prices, lower rents and untenanted farms. Previously attributed to bad seasons and increased food imports, this book questions whether the unexpected depression was rather the evolutionary upheaval of a system forced reluctantly into change. Undoubtedly there was a crisis, in these decades farming ceased to be Britain's major industry; no longer able to supply all her own food, the country came to depend increasingly upon imports. Methods changed, cereal production yielding pre-eminence to pastoral farming. In recent years scholars have challenged traditional interpretations of the crisis, seeking a wider range of causes, characteristics and consequences. It has come to be seen as a phenomenon of change as much as of decay. This book brings together different views of the depression, ranging from contemporary evaluations to recent regional and econometric studies which stress its spatial and developmental character. Originally published in 1973, these eight contributions provide a survey of changing approaches to one of the major economic crises in modern history.

Author : Ron Broglio
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838757000
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technologies of the Picturesque written by Ron Broglio and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With considerable learning and insight, Broglio reveals how artists are both complicit with such objectification of nature, and at other moments work toward a more vivid connection to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.