A History of British Livestock Husbandry, 1700-1900 / Edition 1

by Robert Trow-Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138879744
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/04/2015
Series:	Economic History
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Pastoral Britain in the Eighteenth Century 2. The Work of Robert Bakewell 3. The Late Eighteenth Century 1: Fodder Crops and Cattle 4. The Late Eighteenth Century 2: Sheep, Pigs and Horses 5. The Late Eighteenth Century 3: The Techniques of Cattle Husbandry 6. The Late Eighteenth Century 4: Management of the Sheep and Pig 7. Development of the Livestock Market 8. The Nineteenth Century 1: Perfecting British Breeds of Cattle 9. The Nineteenth Century 2: Sheep, Pigs and Horses 10. The Nineteenth Century 11. Livestock Managenment and Markets List of Principal Sources Index