| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations (some color |
| Contents |
Carving out the meat : beyond deep history -- Deep history and why hunting matters -- Our natural habitat : glades, groves and parkland -- Elricks and kites, hayes and ha-has -- Paradeisos and classical hunting parks -- East of Eden : Chinese parks and the sons of heaven -- Xanadu and the nomads -- Flowers of the high medieval : how fallow deer came to Britain from the paradise gardens, the Arabic origins of ornamental landscape, and flirtation -- Beautiful and tame : why we chose fallow -- How the deer were hunted in parks : coursing, and venery -- Noli me tangere -- le cerf prive in paradise -- Parks in contention : Forest law, park breaking and poaching -- The Parker's duties : pales, salters and trenches; browse; leaps and creeps; grease and fence months -- Ornament : antithesis of utility, bedfellow of status. Tudor parks and beyond ... -- The restoration and landscape : from ashes to avenues; purgatory to paradise -- The black act : expulsion from paradise -- beyond the pale -- Giving it away : venison as conspicuous consumption, a gift beyond price -- Against the odds -- carted stags and show hunts : British and German attitudes to containing deer for sport -- Castles for deer : from hunting to husbandry ... -- Mounting heads : trophies, monarchs and dictators -- Ecological oases, urban lungs, and venison farms -- Notes -- Terminology of deer and trees |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-276) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Deer farming -- Great Britain -- History
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Deer hunting -- Great Britain -- History
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Deer -- Great Britain
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Game reserves -- Great Britain -- History
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Parks -- Great Britain -- History
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Wildlife management areas -- Great Britain -- History
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Deer farming.
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Deer hunting.
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Deer.
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Game reserves.
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Hjortdjur -- Storbritannien.
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Hjorthägn -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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Hjortuppfödning -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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Jakt -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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Parker -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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Parks.
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Wildlife management areas.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
129931158X |
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1905119526 |
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9781299311589 |
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9781905119523 |
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