A History of Livestock and Wildlife : Animal Wealth and Human Usage / Eric Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation--History.

Wildlife conservation.

Livestock.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

The use of wildlife products, together with advances in livestock feeding, were essential in propelling Western economic growth. Extraordinarily, these early modern and early industrial features are side-lined relative to the role of manufacturing. This book restores the balance, detailing how many species were relocated around the world and how late natural products persisted into the age of synthetics.This text describes how animals were driven immense distances to market and harnessed for transportation and to power machines; even after industrialisation, animals were employed for innumerable purposes, besides being co-opted as pets. The recent rebound from a wholesale persecution of wild nature, and how the plundering of the animal kingdom and the development of livestock farming jointly created the Smithian Growth that ushered in the Industrial Revolution, are also described.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introductory

Chapter 1

Part One

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Part Two

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Part Three

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Part Four

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Part Five

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Part Six

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jones, Eric A History of Livestock and Wildlife

ISBN:

1-5275-2543-0