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The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900

Name: The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
ISBN: 9781469634685

Rebecca J. H. Woods

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"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."--

Jahr:

2017

Verlag:

The University of North Carolina Press

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

250

ISBN 10:

1469634686

ISBN 13:

9781469634685