As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal
breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while
maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they
transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into
bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and
economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial
environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces
how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the
technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around
the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the
relationship between type and place and what it means to call a
particular breed of livestock ""native,"" Woods highlights the
inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and
the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive
archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia,
this study illuminates the connections between the biological
consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the
national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods
uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock
industry today.
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