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The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England

By Peter Edwards

Book information

Year
1988
ISBN
9780521350587, 9780511522543, 0521520088, 0521350581, 0511522541, 9780521520089
LCC
HD9434.G73 E654 1988
Open Library ID
OL2394597M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6033536 bytes)
Pages
217\217
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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