Margaret E. Derry's Books

Masterminding Nature

The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010

By: Margaret E. Derry

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Masterminding Nature

The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010

By: Margaret E. Derry

Canadian historian Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methods in 18th-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442626526

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9781442626522

Bred for Perfection

Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses Since 1800

By: Margaret E. Derry

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Bred for Perfection

Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses Since 1800

By: Margaret E. Derry

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.

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228

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JHU Press

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0801873444

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9780801873447

Horses in Society

A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920

By: Margaret E. Derry

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Horses in Society

A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920

By: Margaret E. Derry

Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated a intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism. Derry elucidates the increasingly complex horse world by looking at the international trade in army horses, the regulations put in place by different countries to enforce better horse breeding, and general aspects of the dynamics of the horse market. Because it is a story of how certain groups attempted to control the market for horses, by protecting their breeding activities or 'patenting' their work, Horses in Society provides valuable background information to the rapidly developing present-day problem of biological ownership. Derry's fascinating study is also a story of the evolution of animal medicine and humanitarian movements, and of international relations, particularly between Canada and the United States.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487511140

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9781487511142

Made to Order

The Designing of Animals

By: Margaret E. Derry

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Made to Order

The Designing of Animals

By: Margaret E. Derry

Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.

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332

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University of Toronto Press

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1487541635

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9781487541637

Art and Science in Breeding

Creating Better Chickens

By: Margaret Elsinor Derry

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Art and Science in Breeding

Creating Better Chickens

By: Margaret Elsinor Derry

Chickens are now the most scientifically engineered of livestock. How have the methods used by geneticists differed from those employed by domestic breeders over time? Art and Science in Breeding details the relationship between farm practices and agricultural genetics in poultry breeding from 1850 to 1960. Margaret E. Derry traces the history and organization of chicken breeding in North America, from craft approaches and breeding as an 'art,' to the conflicts that had emerged between traditional and scientific methods by the 1940s. Derry assesses links between the 'scientific' revolution of chicken farming and the development of corporate breeding as a modern, international industry. Using poultry as a case study for the wider narrative of agricultural genetics, Art and Science in Breeding adds considerable knowledge to a rapidly growing field of inquiry.

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1442643951

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9781442643956

Pathway

Life as Art, Science, and History

By: Margaret Elsinor Derry

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Pathway

Life as Art, Science, and History

By: Margaret Elsinor Derry

This odyssey of discovery is full of joys, insights and revelations for the mind and spirit. Margaret Derry reveals the art in science and the science in art through a journey to knowledge, learning and spirit. In Pathway we see history as cohesive force binding childhood to the mature, full flourish of intellectual achievement.

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