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

by Arthur MacGregor

Until the advent of steam and later the internal combustion engine, the fortunes of man and beast were intimately and essentially bound together. Animals were fundamental partners in a range of human work and leisure activities such as transport, agriculture, industry, warfare, sports, and recreation. But their importance to human progress has become overshadowed by technology and greatly overlooked in our now largely urbanized society, from which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861898495
• ISBN13: 9781861898494
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.6" x 9.9"