Beauty or Statistics : : Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000 / / Bert Theunissen.
In 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...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 24 b&w illustrations |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Breeding for nobility or for production? friesian dairy cattle
- 2. “The most efficient chickens in the world”
- 3. Breeding a pig for all parties
- 4. Just not like any other sheep breed: the texel
- 5. From farm horse to riding horse: the dutch warmbloods
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index