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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 October 2009
      16 June 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511522543
      9780521520089
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522543
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.346kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History after 1450, History, Economic History
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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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