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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Cover; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Carving out the Meat: beyond deep history; 2 Deep History and why Hunting Matters; 3 Our Natural Habitat: glades, groves and parkland; 4 Elricks and Kites, Hayes and Ha-has; 5 Paradeisos and Classical Hunting Parks; 6 East of Eden: Chinese parks and the Sons of Heaven; 7 Xanadu and the Nomads; 8 Flowers of the High Medieval: how fallow deer came to Britainfrom the paradise gardens, the Arabic origins of ornamentallandscape, and flirtation; 9 Beautiful and Tame: why we chose fallow |
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10 How the Deer were Hunted in Parks: coursing, and venery11 Noli me tangere -- le cerf privé in Paradise; 12 Parks in Contention: Forest Law, park breaking and poaching; 13 The Parker's Duties: pales, salters and trenches; browse; leaps and creeps; grease and fence months; 14 Ornament: antithesis of utility, bedfellow of status. Tudor parks and beyond ... ; 15 The Restoration and Landscape: from ashes to avenues; purgatory to paradise; 16 The Black Act: expulsion from Paradise -- beyond the pale; 17 Giving it Away: venison as conspicuous consumption, a gift beyond price |
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18 Against the Odds -- carted stags and show hunts:British and German attitudes to containing deer for sport19 Castles for Deer: from hunting to husbandry ... ; 20 Mounting Heads: trophies, monarchs and dictators; 21 Ecological Oases, Urban Lungs, and Venison Farms; Notes; Terminology of Deer and Trees; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This is a highly original, profusely illustrated, and well researched account of deer parks. With humility and respect Fletcher touches on errors commonly made by archaeologists and historians, taking issue with long held theories while drawing on his lifetime working with deer to formulate plausible explanations as to, for example, why they were not domesticated until the 20th century, how parks evolved from haga and elricks, why deer parks were created throughout Eurasia, why fallow so rapidly ousted red deer from medieval British parks, and much more. He ranges from meat sharing amongst ch |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Deer hunting -- Great Britain -- History
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Deer farming -- Great Britain -- History
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Parks -- Great Britain -- History
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Game reserves -- Great Britain -- History
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Wildlife management areas -- Great Britain -- History
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Deer -- Great Britain
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Deer
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Deer farming
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Deer hunting
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Game reserves
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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 |
9781905119523 |
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1905119526 |
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