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Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England
Nicholas Russell
Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England
Nicholas Russell
Robert Bakewell is usually regarded as one of the legendary pioneers of the agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain. However, this book examines the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating earlier sources of many of Bakewell's opinions and procedures.
284 pages, Illustrations, map
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 15, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780521031585 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Dimensions | 155 × 233 × 18 mm · 436 g |
Language | English |