Industrializing Organisms (eBook, ePUB)

Introducing Evolutionary History
Redaktion: Schrepfer, Susan; Scranton, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135942915
• Artikelnr.: 47893020

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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