Author: John French Burke
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415382700
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Robert Trow-Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415381123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Debby Banham
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199207941
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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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: Stephen J. G. Hall
Publisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: John MORTIMER (F.R.S.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Ann Kussmaul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521235662
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This book explores servants in husbandry and considers the wider historiographical implications.

Author: Margaret Elsinor Derry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802091121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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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.