{"product_id":"beauty-or-statistics-practice-and-science-in-dutch-livestock-breeding-1900-2000-hardback-9781487507008","title":"Beauty or Statistics; Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000 (Hardback) 9781487507008","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeauty or Statistics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePractice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBert Theunissen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487507008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 24 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book offers a magnificent panorama on animal husbandry, featuring concrete discussions on dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Beat Bächi, University of Zurich (\u003cem\u003eEuropean Journal for the History of Medicine and Health\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"A work of excellent scholarship that will be recommended reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century agricultural history and in the history of animal breeding and genetics.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Tarquin Holmes (\u003cem\u003eHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"This book beautifully straddles the line between the two apparently diverse (and often divisive) attitudes to breeding, because of a deep understanding of both genetic and practical breeding methods.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Margaret E. Derry, University of Guelph (\u003cem\u003eAgricultural History\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe livestock breeds that take centre stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, \u003ci\u003eBeauty or Statistics \u003c\/i\u003eshows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analysed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Breeding for Nobility or for Production? Friesian Dairy Cattle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Breeders Get Organized\u003cbr\u003eType and Tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003eThe Moral Economy of Breeding\u003cbr\u003eBloodlines and Purity\u003cbr\u003eScientific Breeding \u003cbr\u003eNobility or Production? \u003cbr\u003eEntrepreneurship \u003cbr\u003eIndexes\u003cbr\u003eHolsteinization\u003cbr\u003eMarket and Moral Economy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. \"The most efficient chickens in the world\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Side Business to Mainstay\u003cbr\u003eHybrid Breeding\u003cbr\u003eHy-Line and Hendrix Genetics\u003cbr\u003eFrom Purebreds to First-Generation Crossbreds\u003cbr\u003eIndustrialization\u003cbr\u003eDevelopments in Breeding\u003cbr\u003eChickens are Not Peas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Breeding a Pig for all Parties\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTesting for Productive Traits\u003cbr\u003eMinkema\u0026amp;#x2019;s Breeding Plan\u003cbr\u003eAI in Pigs\u003cbr\u003eHybrid Pig Breeding\u003cbr\u003eThe Breeder\u0026amp;#x2019;s Eye\u003cbr\u003ePigs are Not Chickens\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Just Not Like any other Sheep Breed: The Texel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating the Texel\u003cbr\u003eThe Swifter\u003cbr\u003eBreeding by Numbers or By Eye\u003cbr\u003eAI in Texel Sheep\u003cbr\u003eWhat\u0026amp;#x2019;s in a Breed?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. From Farm Horse to Riding Horse: The Dutch Warmbloods\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGelderlanders and Groningers\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing \"Hot Blood\"\u003cbr\u003eFinding the Right Mix\u003cbr\u003eThe Government Intervenes\u003cbr\u003eScientific Breeding\u003cbr\u003eBalancing Practical and Scientific Methods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003eSources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595481248024,"sku":"9781487507008","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beauty-or-statistics-practice-and-science-in-dutch-livestock-breeding-1900-2000-hardback-9781487507008","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}