Like engend'ring like : heredity and animal breeding in early modern England /
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| Author / Creator: | Russell, Nicholas (Nicholas Carrick) |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986. |
| Description: | ix, 271 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/746569 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
