Author: Richard Bryan Helmer
Publisher: Richard B. Helmer
ISBN: 0961377607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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A biography of James and Alvin Sanders who founded the Breeder's Gazette Journal in 1881 and published many books on livestock breeding. A history of the livestock movement from the 1800's.
Author: Neal A. Knapp
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421446553
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines and industrialize American agriculture. In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals' bodies to fit a modern, industrial design. Chicago meatpackers partnered with land-grant university professors to create the International—a spectacle on the scale of a world's fair—with the intention of setting the standard for animal quality and, in doing so, transformed American agriculture. In Making Machines of Animals, Neal A. Knapp explains the motivations of both the meatpackers and the professors, describing how they deployed the International to redefine animality itself. Both professors and packers hoped to replace so-called scrub livestock with "improved" animals and created a new taxonomy of animal quality based on the burgeoning eugenics movement. The International created novel definitions of animal superiority and codified new norms, resulting in a dramatic shift in animal weight, body size, and market age. These changes transformed the animals from multipurpose to single-purpose products. These standardized animals and their dependence on off-the-farm inputs and exchanges limited farmers' choices regarding husbandry and marketing, ultimately undermining any goals for balanced farming or the maintenance and regeneration of soil fertility. Drawing on land-grant university research and publications, meatpacker records and propaganda, and newspaper and agricultural journal articles, Knapp critiques the supposed market-oriented, efficiency-driven industrial reforms proffered by the International, which were underpinned by irrational, racist ideologies. The livestock reform movement not only resulted in cruel and violent outcomes for animals but also led to twentieth-century crops and animal husbandry that were rife with inefficiencies and agricultural vulnerabilities.
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A thorough bibliography with some annotations when the title does not describe the material. Arrangement is in 25 alphabetically sequenced subject categories. Four classes of material are excluded: genealogies, newspaper articles, manuscripts, audio-visual materials. Indexed by personal name and sub
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Category : Jackson County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: H. Amanda Robb
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The definitive guide to the 5,000 most common surnames in the United States. With origins, variations, rankings, prominent bearers and published genealogies.
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Includes list of members.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Author: Fremont Rider
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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