... it into a collectively organized, scientific enterprise. These plans were largely subverted by the fierce opposition of breeders. Nevertheless, quantitative scientific methods, particularly quantitative genetics, started to make inroads into Warmblood breeding at the time. However, the breeders’ decision to switch...

... defects, the importation of new breeds, changing standards in relation to husbandry, and the extension of quantitative genetic breeding practices. These innovations would be echoed across Europe in the production of beef cattle and would also interact with the way dairy cattle were bred. This article...

... in progeny not intended for use in future breeding. Practical breeders looked for continuity in true breeding lines, which were designed to produce quantitative changes over generations, meaning a gradual increase in output of eggs, milk, or meat. Occasionally breeders utilized the two approaches together...

... scientific” (117). The chapter on sheep breeding provides an interesting contrast to the “art-to-science” trends in the dairy cattle, chicken, and even pig worlds. As far as the breeding of Texel sheep was concerned, traditional methods not only trumped all efforts at introducing quantitative genetic...

... suggests a new way of evaluating quantitative analysis and its place within feminist research. However, one could also argue that this book does not contain the best quantitative analysis possible, and there are many ways that it could have been improved (the absence of a methodological appendix is a major...

... history had the following guidelines: (1) a quantitative emphasis on the use of records and on statistical presentation; (2) the explicit use or refinement of social theory; and (3) a focus on the lower social strata, "history from the bottom up."51 would add a fourth characteristic as essential...

.... Shull , “What is Heterosis?,” Genetics 33 , no. 5 ( 1948 ): 439 – 46 ; I. Michael Lerner , The Genetic Basis for Selection ( New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 1958 ); William G. Hill , ed., Quantitative Genetics: Part I, Explanation and Analysis of Continuous Variation...

..., for example, would not reemerge in any widespread way for the larger animals until the rise of quantitative genetics after the mid-twentieth century. Public pedigree keeping, the fundamental selection tool of the Thoroughbred breeders, would become almost another definition of purebred breeding, making...

.... Although Kekki's work focuses on issues of power, her reliance on mainly quantitative measures to chart influence reveals the limitations of her approach, for assessing the degree of social or political influence these individuals had is difficult to gauge through solely quantitative means, and without...

.... What The Bottom Rung does in a new and fresh way is to bolster narrative evi? dence with quantitative verification. Author Stewart Tolnay, a sociologist and demographer, demonstrates the power of the data set known as the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS). IPUMS combines the data from so...

... the 1550s that the economy slowly recovered to reach the song level. This book is at its most compelling when liu presents a comprehensive quantitative analysis on vast amounts of economic data from the eleventh to the mid-fifteenth century (in 126 tables). These data come from both primary documents...

... the scholarship of agricultural history beyond the farm. Numbers-challenged readers will be pleased with the absence of tables, graphs, and correlation coefficients in this qualitative study. Others, however, will miss the quantitative dimension. Only near the end of the book does Mapes make clear that America s...

...-challenged readers will be pleased with the absence of tables, graphs, and correlation coefficients in this qualitative study. Others, however, will miss the quantitative dimension. Only near the end of the book does Mapes make clear that America s sugar beet producers never came close to fully supplying...

... to historians of twentiethcentury southern agriculture. It tells the story of the formation, reproduction, and work patterns of southern African American farm families. What The Bottom Rung does in a new and fresh way is to bolster narrative evi? dence with quantitative verification. Author Stewart Tolnay...

... in a moment of interwar French colonial extraction; and Cambodia in the shadow of war and reconstruction. These case studies, each tragic in their particulars and documented with admirable quantitative and qualitative precision, are fodder for Rice s larger claims about famine its emergence at predictable...

.... In response, the authors mount a persuasive attack on Shannon s research and his mishandling of quantitative and qualitative data. From this critique the authors derive four of what they call stylized facts commonly and uncrit- 640 Agricultural History ically accepted by historians following in Shannon s...

... in methodology for the quantitative study of well depths and African labor are also a bit perplexing. For example, he took the average of the two extreme well depths instead of the mean or median of all wells and did not establish what well depth was the threshold for the breeding of malarial mosquitos. However...

... invisibility (44). However, there is no quantitative evidence to support claims that go beyond the scattered qualitative appreciations, so that the potato s actual consumption cannot be precisely indicated. Moreover, it is not always clear to what extent potatoes were grown for animal fodder. Both...

... University Press, 2012. 250 pp., $25.00, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4214-0556-8. Scholarship on the colonial Chesapeake Bay region has long been character- 456 2014 Book Reviews ized by prodigious feats of archival research, sophisticated quantitative methods, and close attention to the material foundations...

... divided the work into fairly distinct components. The primary author, an economist, focused on the quantitative tracking of structural and technological change, while I focused on the contextual narrative and synthesis of political, social, and economic change over time. Our third author provided...