Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England

Abstract

List of charts, tables and plates Preface Introduction 1. Breeding strategies 2. The classical tradition: theories of heredity and breeding practice in Greece and Rome 3. Generation and the market: the background to animal breeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 4. The horse: breeding for war, sport and fashion 5. Horse breeding in the eighteenth century: blood, speed and carriages 6. Cattle breeding: dairymen, graziers and the techniques of their 'fancy' 7. Breeding sheep: mutton displaces wool 8. Summary and conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.