Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War I

by Arthur MacGregor

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Until the advent of steam and later the internal combustion engine, the fortunes of man and beast were intimately and essentially bound together. Animals played a variety of fundamental roles in a range of human work and leisure activities such as transport, agriculture, industry, warfare, sport and recreation. Their importance to human progress has become increasingly hard to grasp for our largely urbanized society, from which the animal world has become ever more remote. Animal Encounters draws on the author's lifetime interest in the fields of art history, topographical literature, archaeology, history and archaeozoology, to provide an overview of...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781861898494
  • Publish Date 1 November 2011
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Reaktion Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 512
  • Language English