Schrepfer / Scranton Industrializing Organisms

Introducing Evolutionary History
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-94292-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schrepfer, Susan

Scranton, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Medizinische Biotechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Industrielle Organisation

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.