The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England
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- Author: Peter Edwards
- Date Published: July 2004
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521520089
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Horses played a vital role in the economy of pre-industrial England. They acted as draught animals, pulled ploughs, waggons and coaches, worked machines, and transported goods around the country. As saddle animals they enabled their riders to carry out a wide variety of tasks, and at all levels of society they were regarded as status symbols in a unique relationship with man shared by no other animal. During the Tudor and Stuart period, horses were needed in ever-growing numbers, and for a greater variety of tasks. As demand grew, improvements became necessary in the means of supply and distribution. The agents of change, the specialist dealers, were often condemned as rogues and cheats, whose actions raised prices and caused shortages. Dr Edwards argues that, far from being generally unscrupulous, the dealers were no better or worse than those amongst whom they lived and worked.
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- Date Published: July 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521520089
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.346kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Lists of tables, graph and maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Horse breeding and rearing areas and the improvement of the native stock
2. Horse fairs, markets and private dealing
3. Horse dealers
4. Horse stealing
Conclusion
Appendixes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
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