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...Margaret E. Derry Abstract This article deals with transformations in beef cattle breeding practices in North America from 1950 to 2000, and the implication of these changes across the Western world. It was a period of profound adjustment for beef cattle breeders, involving battles over genetic...

...Margaret Derry Abstract This article uses the concept of purity to explore the thinking of purebred animal breeders and that of eugenicists in Britain and North America between 1880 and 1920. It begins with an explanation of why such a study is important and continues with the historical background...

...Margaret E. Derry Abstract In the twentieth century a conflict arose between geneticists and practical breeders over which theory of heredity should direct animal breeding strategies and methods. Two different approaches existed and competed with each other over how to develop a breeding...

...Margaret E. Derry The conclusion provides overviews on breeding from a general and international point of view by using the Dutch example to show how science interacts with traditional breeding. In doing so, the author confirms that this book is more than a study of Dutch agriculture...

...Margaret Derry Abstract This article examines the controversy over the use of a DNA marker test for Tibial Hemimelia (TH) by North American Shorthorn breeders. The conflict illustrates, first, that tools available to remove defects are not necessarily used to eliminate them from the herds...

...George B. Ellenberg Global/Comparative AgriculturHalistory Spring Horses inSocietyA: StoryofAnimal BreedingandMarketingCulture, 1800-1920. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: Universityof Toronto Press, 2006. 304 pp., $60.00,hardback,ISBN 0-8020-9112-1. In recent years, historians have begun to examine...

...R. Bruce Shepard Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920 . Margaret Derry . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 708 / Agricultural History America, which gave meaning to a dystopian sense of modemity. As I have argued elsewhere, the stories...

...Ann Norton Greene Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750–2010 . By Margaret E. Derry . Toronto : University of Toronto , 2015 . 320 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4426-2652-2. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter the page...

...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800 . Margaret E. Derry . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 122 / Agricultural History Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses 1800. By Margaret...

... breeders for results, naturalists sought to understand the mechanics of heredity through experimental crossing and hybridization. derry then leads the reader through the history of genetics and genomics. These chapters are clearly written, yet dense with scientific information, so the glossary provided...

... of rural Americans living in the twentieth century. Brad D. Lookingbill Columbia College Ontario i Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870-1920. By Margaret Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 221 pp., $50.00, hardback, ISBN 0-8020-4866-8. This well-researched and well-argued...

... and interesting facts and references here and there. Sam White Ohio State University Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750 2010. By Margaret e. derry. Toronto: university of Toronto, 2015. 320 pp., $32.95, paperback, iSBn 978-1-4426-2652-2. Margaret derry s most recent book on breeding provides...

...Aimee Tomasek This Bountiful Place: Art about Agriculture, the Permanent Collection . Shelley Curtis . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews exists isuseful, but Derry points out thatnumbers provide only a superficial view of the draft animal world...

..., derris, cotton, and abaca. Abaca, a banana-like plant highly prized as a source of fiber (known as Manila hemp) for rope and twine, was one of the most valuable products to the Japanese. Abaca thrived particularly in Davao Province on Mindanao Is? land, where Japanese businesses maintained plantations...

...,on thewell-foundeadssumptionthathorsesareparticularly centralto humanhistoryand thinking. MargaretE. Derry UniversitoyfGuelph Africa ResurrectingtheGranaryof Rome: EnvironmentaHl istoryand French Colonial ExpansioninNorthAfrica.By Diana Davis. Athens:Ohio UniversityPress,2007.312 pp59.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0...

... humanhistoryand thinking. MargaretE. Derry UniversitoyfGuelph Africa ResurrectingtheGranaryof Rome: EnvironmentaHl istoryand French Colonial ExpansioninNorthAfrica.By Diana Davis. Athens:Ohio UniversityPress,2007.312 pp59.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-8214-1751-5...

...://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1901/z/z003/jpg/z000114675.jpg (accessed Sept. 21, 2015 ). 9. Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington , 59 ; Margaret Derry , Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920 ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2001 ), 92...

... Federation for Sport Horses; see http://www.wbfsh.org/GB.aspx (Accessed Mar. 23, 2017. 3. To give just a few examples: Roger J. Wood , and Vítězslav Orel , Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding: A Prelude to Mendel ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 ); Margaret E. Derry...

... systems was representative neither of British agricultural production in the 1960s nor of the established concerns about “factory farming” already being discussed in the countryside at that time. © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 NOTES 1. Thanks to Paul Brassley, Margaret Derry...

...: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700 . 2nd ed. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2009 . Derry, Margaret E. Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2003 . Dewey, Caitlin...