| Description |
ix, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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 |
| Analysis |
England Livestock Breeding, 1600-1800. Genetic aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 252-264 |
| Subject |
Livestock -- Breeding -- England -- History.
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Livestock -- Genetics -- History.
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| LC no. |
85021350 |
| ISBN |
0521306574 |
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