Nicholas Russell: Like Engend'ring Like

Cover: 9780521031585 | Like Engend'ring Like | Nicholas Russell | Taschenbuch | Paperback

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Beschreibung

Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange in Leicestershire is usually regarded as the founding father of modern farm livestock breeding, and is thought of as one of the legendary pioneers of the agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain. However, Bakewell was by no means the first English breeder to practise deliberate selection of desirable qualities in his livestock. This book sets out to examine the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to demonstrate the earlier sources of many of Bakewell's opinions and procedures. It reviews the relationships which may have existed between the ideas of practical animal breeders and those of philosophical naturalists with theoretical ideas about heredity. It also touches on the question of whether the stimulus for the development of new stock was provided by demand for different products or by a desire to obtain knowledge about the heredity of domestic animals.

Zusammenfassung

Robert Bakewell is usually regarded as one of the legendary pioneers of the agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain. However, this book examines the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating earlier sources of many of Bakewell’s opinions and procedures. It reviews the relationships which may have existed between the ideas of practical animal breeders and those of philosophical naturalists while touching on whether the stimulus for the development of new stock was provided by demand for different products or by a desire to obtain knowledge about the heredity of domestic animals.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of charts, tables and plates; Preface; Introduction; 1. Breeding strategies; 2. The classical tradition: theories of heredity and breeding practice in Greece and Rome; 3. Generation and the market: the background to animal breeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 4. The horse: breeding for war, sport and fashion; 5. Horse breeding in the eighteenth century: blood, speed and carriages; 6. Cattle breeding: dairymen, graziers and the techniques of their 'fancy'; 7. Breeding sheep: mutton displaces wool; 8. Summary and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521031585
ISBN-10:	0521031583
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Russell, Nicholas
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Nicholas Russell
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.09.2006
Gewicht:	0,436 kg

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