Author: Ernest Edwin WilliamsPublisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Foreigner in the Farmyard
Author: Ernest Edwin WilliamsPublisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The New Review
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: The Herds Shot Round the World
Author: Rebecca J. H. WoodsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469634678
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock "native," Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: The Review of Reviews
Author: William Thomas SteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: The Birth of Military Aviation
Author: Hugh DriverPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780861932344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A survey of the development of British military aviation from 1903 to 1914, revealing the consequences of its annexation by the state as a branch of armaments as an underlying cause of aircraft inadequacies on the outbreak of war. A mine of information, drawing on an impressive range of archives. It will become an important point of reference. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This book aims to demonstrate how the crisis evident in British military aviation in the early years of the First World War was inherent in the entire development of aviation in the years preceding the conflict. After outlining the work of the early pioneers and the growth of an aviation industry as a branch of armaments, Dr Driver considers the objectives of the War Office in increasingly seeking to divert design development to their research establishment at Farnborough. He shows how the resultant virtual state monopoly in designand procurement had disastrous consequences for aircraft innovation and development, suffocating both competition and initiative, and leading to the maintenance of inadequate aircraft by the Royal Flying Corps following the outbreak of war. The continuing dispute and its culmination in the "Fokker Scourge" controversy of 1915-1916 graphically characterise the strained development of military-industrial relations in this area. Dr HUGH DRIVER gained an MA in War Studies from King's College London, and a D.Phil in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford.
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Author: Albert ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Index to the Periodicals of 1890-1902
Author: The Review of reviewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description