TY - BOOK ID - 78493388 TI - The herds shot round the world PY - 2017 SN - 1469634678 1469634686 9781469634685 9781469634678 9781469634654 1469634651 9781469634661 146963466X 9798890849434 PB - Chapel Hill DB - UniCat KW - Agrobiodiversity. KW - Industrial revolution KW - Endemic animals KW - Cattle breeds KW - Sheep breeds KW - Animal industry KW - Agricultural biodiversity KW - Agricultural biological diversity KW - Agro-biodiversity KW - Agricultural ecology KW - Biodiversity KW - Revolution, Industrial KW - Economic history KW - Social history KW - Animals KW - Cattle KW - Livestock breeds KW - Sheep KW - Animal products industry KW - Livestock industry KW - Agricultural industries KW - History KW - Breeds KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493388 AB - "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."-- ER -