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Rebecca J. H. Woods
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 envir
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Rebecca J. H. Woods
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Isis. 113:887-888
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Rebecca J H Woods
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The American Historical Review. 127:474-475
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Rebecca J. H. Woods
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 35:117-136
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent wi
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Rebecca J. H. Woods
This chapter uses the case of Soay sheep, one of the United Kingdom’s most ancient and remote breeds of sheep to pose the central question of the book: what is the relationship between place and type in both the practice of and rhetoric surrounding
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469634661.003.0001
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Rebecca J. H. Woods
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The Herds Shot Round the World
This chapter examines the fraught attempts to acclimatize Spanish merino sheep in Britain in the early nineteenth century. Proponents of the merino were motivated by the commercial value of merino wool, which is and was exceptionally fine, but the de
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Autor:
Rebecca J. H. Woods
Chapter 4 turns to colonial New Zealand where questions about the relationship of type to place played out on an imperial scale. As the global price of wool plummeted in the 1860s, pastoralists in New Zealand reconfigured their predominantly merino f
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Rebecca J. H. Woods
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The Herds Shot Round the World
The developments outlined in Chapter 5 set the stage for the late-twentieth-century invention of “Traditional” Hereford cattle, defined as those animals whose entire lineage could be traced to individuals bred only within the British Isles. Tradi
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Autor:
Rebecca J. H. Woods
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 envir
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::8b6b2a10ebc4b8f4148a159d8d5c9ad7
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469634661.001.0001
Autor:
Rebecca J. H. Woods
Publikováno v:
The Herds Shot Round the World
This chapter explores “native” British breeds within the context of agricultural improvement at the turn of the nineteenth century, arguing that the idea of a native breed arose at the same time and in opposition to that of an “improved” bree
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