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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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The Horse
Author: William YouattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asses and mules
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Riding High
Author: Sandra Scott SwartPublisher:
ISBN: 9781868146673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and North Africa, these equine colonisers not only provided power and transportation but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. In some ways "Riding High" is an attempt to chronicle the effects of an inter-species relationship whose significance was vast and lead to major changes in the history of leisure, transportation, trade, warfare, and agriculture. On another level, these stories are simply the adventures of a big, gentle herbivore and a small, rogue primate. The horses introduced to the southern tip of Africa were both agents and subjects of enduring changes. This book explores their introduction under VOC rule in the mid-seventeenth century, their dissemination into the interior, their acquisition by indigenous groups and their ever-shifting roles. In its relocation to the Cape, the horse of the Dutch empire in southeast Asia experienced a physical transformation over time. Establishing an early breeding stock was fraught with difficulty and horses remained vulnerable in the new and dangerous environment. They had to be nurtured into defending their owners' ambitions: first those of the white settlement and then African and other hybrid social groupings. The book traces the way horses were adapted by shifting human needs in the nineteenth century. It focuses on their experiences in the South African War, on the cusp of the twentieth century, and highlights how horses remained integral to civic functioning on various levels, replaced with mechanization only after lively debate. They remained useful in certain sectors and linked to totems of social power even in contemporary South Africa. "Riding High" reinserts the horse into the broader historical narrative and speculates about what a new kind of history that takes animals seriously might offer us.
International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds
Author: Bonnie L. HendricksPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138848
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A standard reference on horse breeds, illustrated and updated Celebrating the animal that has been a stalwart servant to humankind for countless generations, Bonnie Hendricks’s International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds is the most thorough compilation of horse breeds ever attempted. The nearly four hundred entries, arranged alphabetically, include foundation breeds now extinct as well as extant breeds from across the globe. Each entry details the breed’s origin and background, size, appearance, chief use, and status (rare versus common). A list of breed associations and government departments that supplied data and photographs for the encyclopedia has been fully updated for this edition. With its breadth and depth of coverage, as well as 530 black-and-white and 32 color illustrations, the encyclopedia continues to be a standard international reference.
Notes on the Horse Sickness at the Cape of Good Hope, in 1854-55. [With an Appendix, and a Map.]
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Author: T. B. BAYLEY (of Cape Town.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Early History of the Thoroughbred Horse in South Africa
Author: Hugh Archibald WyndhamPublisher:
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Category : Horse breeding
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Cape and the Kafirs, Or, Notes of Five Years' Residence in South Africa
Author: Alfred Whaley ColePublisher:
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Category : Cape Town
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Descriptive Handbook of the Cape Colony
Author: John NoblePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382825384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.