Industrializing Organisms

Introducing Evolutionary History
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-94548-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

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 Darwin's 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 today's engineered plants and manipulated animals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schrepfer, Susan

Scranton, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Soziobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Medizinische Biotechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Exobiologie, Astrobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Exobiologie, Astrobiologie, Xenobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Schrepfer is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and Director of the Institute for Secondary Teachers
Philip Scranton is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Director of Research at the Hagley Museum and Library.