- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages)
- Summary
- "As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock 'native,' Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery."--
- Series Statement
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- Uniform Title
- Herds shot round the world (Online)
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- Alternative Title
- Herds shot round the world (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2017019373
- OCLC
- ssj0001869698
- Author
Woods, Rebecca J. H.
- Title
The herds shot round the world [electronic resource] : native breeds and the British empire, 1800-1900 / Rebecca J.H. Woods.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Series
Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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