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Author : Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Horse breeds
ISBN : UIUC:30112046882277
Includes information on the Clydesdale horse, Vol. 2, p. 118-151.
Author : Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Horse breeds
ISBN : OCLC:796700106
Author : D. S. Tamblyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0857067850
The last great war of the horse The role of the 'war horse' particularly during its twilight years during the First World War has recently become the focus of much interest. All armies have used horses in wartime as cavalry and mounted infantry, as officers chargers, for artillery or for transport and supply. Some large nations, because the horse formed a central role in its domestic life, became more associated with horses and horsemanship in the period when mechanised transport was making its first halting appearance onto the field of conflict. Russia was famous for its Cossacks and among the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth the accomplished riders of Australia, New Zealand and, especially noteworthy, Canada-the home of the author of this book. Naturally, the author is concerned with the activities of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade, but his book examines in detail the role of horses in every aspect of the Great War. He was not oblivious to the suffering of horses in war though, he clearly demonstrates a great affection for them in their military role. The book concludes with pictures and vignettes of individual horses of renown in the Canadian Army and a short piece on the service of dogs. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Author : Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford (3d bart.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Horse breeds
ISBN : CHI:098475964
Author : W. J. Gordon, W.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1590481194
If it was true that the sun never set on the British Empire, it was equally true that it employed millions of equine subjects to defend, feed and maintain social order among its human citizens. Originally released in 1893, The Horse World of Victorian London provides an insight into the city 's incredible lost equestrian world.At the dawn of the 20th century, there were an estimated 300,000 horses living and working within the city limits of Great Britain 's capital. We are not speaking of horses lodged in farms in the nearby country who travelled in and out the city. Ironically, though the city streets were thronged with horses, few of them were used exclusively for riding. This was instead a massive four-legged work force, the likes of which today 's mechanised humans can neither remember nor relate to. For example every year London 's tram horses collectively travelled twenty-one million miles through the crowded city streets. An estimated forty thousand carriage horses pulled father to work and the children to school. Mother went shopping on the omnibus, of which 22,000 horses drew more than 2,000 vehicles every day. If the family couldn t afford a carriage, they could always travel by horse-drawn tram. London had 135 miles of horse drawn tram lines. Every year these tram horses collectively travelled twenty-one million miles through the crowded city streets. The North Metropolitan Tram Company alone employed 3,500 horses.Before the days of UPS and FEDEX, private companies delivered household goods to the family home from nearby railway stations. One company main tained 2,000 horses, which they kept stabled at twenty depots strategically placed around the great metropolis. The concept of rental cars has its roots in the London stable too. The Tilling Corporation maintained an inner-city herd of 2,500 horses which they rented to anyone, including washerwomen, the fire brigade and police. Meanwhile, the sturdy coal horses kept everyone warm by moving an average of thirty tons of coal a week.The accommodations for this enormous urban herd were as varied for the horses as the humans who employed them. Horses lived in everything from tiny huts in dark alleys to multi-storied stables which held several thousand horses under one roof. The doctor, the duke and the drayman all relied on hard-working horses, who routinely laboured ten hours a day for six days a week. From the Lord Mayor to the beggar boy, the horse influenced the daily lives of every Londoner.The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse and this well-illustrated book serves as a unique guide through London 's vanished equine world.
Author : Greg Bankoff,Sandra Scott Swart,P. Boomgaard
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073936158
This book explores the "invention" of specific breeds of horse in the context of imperial design and colonial trade routes. Divided into two sections, it deals respectively with the introduction, invention, and use of the horse in the Philippines, Thailand, and southern Africa, as well as examining its roots and evolution within Indonesia. The study is supplemented by a discussion of the colonial trade in horses within the Indian Ocean and by introductory and concluding sections that discuss the historiographical and methodological problems associated with writing a more species- or horse-centric history.
Author : John MacKenzie
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300260786
A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. But this remarkably wide-ranging spread of ideas had unintended and surprising results. In this groundbreaking history, John M. MacKenzie examines the importance of culture in British imperialism. MacKenzie describes how colonized peoples were quick to observe British culture--and adapted elements to their own ends, subverting British expectations and eventually beating them at their own game. As indigenous communities integrated their own cultures with the British imports, the empire itself was increasingly undermined. From the extraordinary spread of cricket and horse racing to statues and ceremonies, MacKenzie presents an engaging imperial history--one with profound implications for global culture in the present day.
Author : Erica Munkwitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429559389
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize* This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national identity in Britain and its Empire. It argues that women’s participation in horse sports transcended limitations of class and gender in Britain and highlights the democratic ethos that allowed anyone skilled enough to ride and hunt – from chimney-sweep to courtesan. Furthermore, women’s involvement in equestrianism reshaped ideals of race and reinforced imperial ideology at the zenith of the British Empire. Here, British women abandoned the sidesaddle – which they had been riding in for almost half a millennium – to ride astride like men, thus gaining complete equality on horseback. Yet female equestrians did not seek further emancipation in the form of political rights. This paradox – of achieving equality through sport but not through politics – shows how liberating sport was for women into the twentieth century. It brings into question what “emancipation” meant in practice to women in Britain from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. This is fascinating reading for scholars of sports history, women's history, British history, and imperial history, as well as those interested in the broader social, gendered, and political histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and for all equestrian enthusiasts.
Author : C. A. Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386500
This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.
Author : Anne Grimshaw
Publisher : Oryx Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Reference
ISBN : 089774067X
Author : John Ramsay McCulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B4010626
Author : E. H. Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000113679
Author : Edward Henry Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : British
ISBN : NLS:B000389413
Author : John Ramsay MacCulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000231895
Author : Anne Grimshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0853655332