A History of British Livestock Husbandry, to 1700First 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. |
Contents
Plate Page 1 a Bos primigenius | 30 |
Soay sheep | 31 |
SAXON SETTLEMENT AND DOMESDAY SURVEY | 43 |
A Welsh longhouse | 46 |
Ewe milking ladder | 46 |
LIVESTOCK FARMING IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES | 87 |
The Forest of Rossendale | 126 |
Unimproved Welsh sheep | 126 |
The last maker of Great Cheddar cheeses | 174 |
Shetland sheep | 175 |
North Devon cow | 190 |
Improved Welsh sheep | 190 |
Mixed plow team | 222 |
a the Portland and | 223 |
THE TECHNIQUES OF THE SIXTEENTH | 234 |
LIST OF PRINCIPAL SOURCES | 259 |
MEDIAEVAL SHEEP HUSBANDRY | 131 |
a Longhorn bull early nineteenth century | 142 |
a Cotswold sheep nineteenth century | 143 |
THE LIVESTOCK TOPOGRAPHY OF TUDOR | 172 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 272 |
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