Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? Industrializing Organisms brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history--from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and manipulated animals.…mehr
Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? Industrializing Organisms brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history--from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and manipulated animals.
Susan Schrepfer is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and Director of the Institute for Secondary Teachers Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Director of Research at the Hagley Museum and Library.
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Preface Philip Scranton Introduction: The Garden in the Machine: The Anatomy of Evolutionary History Edmund Russell Part One: Plants Profits Politics and Power For Profit and Pleasure: Peter Henderson and the Commercialization of Horticulture in 19th Century America Susan Lanman Biological Innovation in American Wheat Production: Science Policy and Environmental Adaptation Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode Nature and Profit: A Cuban Sugar Plantation in the Early Twentieth Century Mark J. Smith Manufacturing Green Gold: A History of Industrial Tree Improvement in the United States William Boyd and Scott Prudham Part Two: Animals Aggression Arrogance and Analysis War Horses: Markets Myths and Equine Technology in the American Civil War Ann Greene Turbo-Cows: Producing a Competitive Animal in 19th and Early 20th Century Switzerland Barbara Orland Modeling Animals as Technologies and Patients: The Historical Production of Hemophiliac Dogs in American Biomedicine Stephen Pemberton Making the Chicken of Tomorrow: Reworking Poultry as Commodities and as Creatures 1945-1990 Roger Horowitz Hogs Antibiotics and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture Mark R. Finlay Afterword Susan Schrepfer
Preface Philip Scranton Introduction: The Garden in the Machine: The Anatomy of Evolutionary History Edmund Russell Part One: Plants Profits Politics and Power For Profit and Pleasure: Peter Henderson and the Commercialization of Horticulture in 19th Century America Susan Lanman Biological Innovation in American Wheat Production: Science Policy and Environmental Adaptation Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode Nature and Profit: A Cuban Sugar Plantation in the Early Twentieth Century Mark J. Smith Manufacturing Green Gold: A History of Industrial Tree Improvement in the United States William Boyd and Scott Prudham Part Two: Animals Aggression Arrogance and Analysis War Horses: Markets Myths and Equine Technology in the American Civil War Ann Greene Turbo-Cows: Producing a Competitive Animal in 19th and Early 20th Century Switzerland Barbara Orland Modeling Animals as Technologies and Patients: The Historical Production of Hemophiliac Dogs in American Biomedicine Stephen Pemberton Making the Chicken of Tomorrow: Reworking Poultry as Commodities and as Creatures 1945-1990 Roger Horowitz Hogs Antibiotics and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture Mark R. Finlay Afterword Susan Schrepfer
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