Animals & Culture Series

Books relating to human use and manipulation of domestic animals. It covers topics such as culture and structure of purebred breeding, genetics in relation to animal breeding, and structure of the livestock industries. Cattle, horses, dogs and chickens are the primary focus.

Made to Order
$70.00 Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret explains these factors and other breeding…View product
Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom (2001)
$40.00 The complexity of agricultural and social history in post-Confederation Ontario through a study of beef cattle and livestock farming. Based on abundant original research linking…View product
Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals 1750-2010 (2015)
$33.00 Masterminding Nature examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics…View product
Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies and Arabian Horses since 1800 (2003)
$40.00 The human quest to improve livestock, exploring genetics, eugenics and practical breeding in Shorthorn Cattle, Collies and Arabian Horses. In Bred for Perfection, Margaret E.…View product
Horses in Society (2006)
$35.00 This book describes the vanished, working horse world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century in the United States, Canada, and Britain, demystifying its dynamics,…View product
Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens (2012)
$65.00 Art and Science in Breeding tells the fascinating story of the development of the poultry industry in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, demonstrating how turning…View product