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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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Details
- Description
- xiii, 233 pages; 25 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
- 1800-1899
- Animal industry > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Sheep breeds > Great Britain
- Cattle breeds > Great Britain
- Endemic animals > Great Britain
- Industrial revolution > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Agrobiodiversity
- Animal industry
- British colonies
- Cattle breeds
- Endemic animals
- Industrial revolution
- Sheep breeds
- Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-226) and index.
- Contents
- A breed in any other place -- Much ado about mutton -- The first breed of cattle -- Native colonials -- A universal type -- The return of the native breed.
- ISBN
- 9781469634654
- 1469634651
- 9781469634661
- 146963466X
- 9781469634678 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017019373
- OCLC
- ocn975877252
- 975877252
- SCSB-8880608
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library