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- W2950377088 abstract "This dissertation explores the relationship betweentypes of livestock and place in the context of Great Britain'sexpanding agro-pastoral empire. Specifically, it examines how thedistribution and circulation of breeds of livestock native to theBritish Isles influenced understandings of kind and location-of thedynamic interaction between heredity, human influence andenvironmental conditions, and their various fluid effects on ovineand bovine diversity. Drawing on extensive archival work in theUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, I trace both thenational origins and imperial expansion of British breeds. AsBritain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, breedersfaced the need to convert the specificity of their animals intofungibility while maintaining the distinctive character of theirbreeds, seemingly incompatible aims that nonetheless guaranteed theeconomic viability of their stock. Thus they reoriented localvariability towards market standardization, transforming regionaltypes of cattle and sheep into geographically transposable, bulky,and quick-fattening beasts suited for increasingly sophisticatedeconomies and industrialized production. Tension betweenstandardization and specialization shaped the dispersal of breedsthroughout the empire as well. Here, stockbreeders served twomasters: the unfamiliar climates and topographies of Australia, NewZealand, and North America, which demanded local adaptations, andthe British consumer, whose dinner table was the end of the linefor the bulk of colonial beef and mutton. As they tried to balancelocal adaptation and metropolitan taste, breeders experimented withheredity, testing the limits of contemporary understandings ofheritability and breed plasticity, and developed of new strains oflivestock genetically derived from British breeds, but culturally,economically and environmentally hybrid. In the process,imperialism itself was instantiated in these animals. Bodies ofsheep and cattle were remade to suit new lands and later to fillthe refrigerated holds of ocean liners. The empire itself wasrecast as a vast apparatus for feeding Britons. This system,divested of its imperial trappings and disseminated still further,brings meat to tables around the world today." @default.
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- W2950377088 title "The herds shot round the world : native breeds and theBritish Empire, 1800-1900; Native breeds and the British Empire,1800-1900" @default.
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