Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History by Susan Schrepfer (

Description: Industrializing Organisms by Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton 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 the US Navy. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Darwins 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 todays engineered plants and manipulated animals. Author Biography Susan Schrepfer is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and Director of the Institute for Secondary TeachersPhilip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Director of Research at the Hagley Museum and Library. Table of Contents 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 Details ISBN0415945488 Short Title INDUSTRIALIZING ORGANISMS Series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Language English ISBN-10 0415945488 ISBN-13 9780415945486 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 05 Year 2003 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Introducing Evolutionary History Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Susan Schrepfer Edition 1st Author Philip Scranton DOI 10.1604/9780415945486 UK Release Date 2003-10-31 AU Release Date 2003-10-31 NZ Release Date 2003-10-31 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2003-10-31 Alternative 9780415945479 DEWEY 572.838 Illustrations 20 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 286 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134434130;

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