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The herds shot round the world : native breeds and the British empire, 1800-1900 /

Title

The herds shot round the world : native breeds and the British empire, 1800-1900 / Rebecca J.H. Woods.

Author

Woods, Rebecca J. H.,

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Description

xiii, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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

Flows, migrations, and exchanges.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-226) and index.

ISBN

9781469634654
1469634651
9781469634661
146963466X

LCCN

2017019373

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library