Author: Rawdon Briggs LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collie
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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A History and Description of the Collie Or Sheep Dog in His British Varieties
Author: Rawdon Briggs LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collie
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Rawdon B. LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dog breeds
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland. (Non-sporting Division.)
Author: Rawdon B. LeeBred for Perfection
Author: Margaret E. DerryPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
How did animal breeding emerge as a movement? Who took part and for what reasons? How do the pedigree and market systems work? What light might the movement shed on the assumptions behind human eugenics? In Bred for Perfection, Margaret Derry provides the most comprehensive and accessible book yet published on the human quest to improve and develop livestock. Derry, herself a breeder and trained historian of science, explores the "triangle" of genetics, eugenics, and practical breeding, focusing on Shorthorn cattle, show dogs and working dogs, and one type of purebred horse, the Arabian. By examining specific breeders and the animals they produced, she illuminates the role of technology, genetics, culture, and economics in the system of purebred breeding. Bred for Perfection also provides the historical context in which this system arose, adding to our understanding of how domestication works and how our welfare—since the dawn of time—has been intertwined with the lives of animals.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2086
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Beautiful Joe
Author: Margaret Marshall SaundersPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460402286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
One of the first animal viewpoint novels published in North America, Margaret Marshall Saunders’s Beautiful Joe tells the story of an abused dog and his rescue by a humane family. The novel, based on the true story of a dog in the author’s home province of Ontario, fuelled humane sentiments worldwide. This annotated, illustrated edition draws on archival collections to trace the novel’s impact on the nineteenth-century animal protection movement. The introduction also highlights some of the important social issues surrounding the substantive revisions and omissions in ensuing editions of the text. The historical appendices place the novel in its rich milieu as an international bestseller that taught a generation of children to practice kindness towards animals. Documents include animal training manuals, lesson plans for teaching humane education, legal records of prosecutions for cruelty, and contemporary writings on the psychology of pet-keeping.
Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science; the Journal of the Postal Microscopial Society and the Wesley Naturalists' Society
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2088
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
Author: Michael WorboysPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421426595
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The story of the thoroughly Victorian origins of dog breeds. For centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian times that breeders started to produce discrete, differentiated, standardized breeds. In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture. The authors explain how breeders, exhibitors, and showmen borrowed ideas of inheritance and pure blood, as well as breeding practices of livestock, horse, poultry and other fancy breeders, and applied them to a species that was long thought about solely in terms of work and companionship. The new dog breeds embodied and reflected key aspects of Victorian culture, and they quickly spread across the world, as some of Britain’s top dogs were taken on stud tours or exported in a growing international trade. Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain’s posture in a global empire, The Invention of the Modern Dog demonstrates that studying dog breeding cultures allows historians to better understand the complex social relationships of late-nineteenth-century Britain.
The Complete Old English Sheepdog
Author: John MandevillePublisher: Howell Books
ISBN:
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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