First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume publishes some leading European contributors to the early formation of historical and social science analysis of the orient: those contributors who shaped the modern debate on orientalism, especially on Islam, the Middle-East and orientalism in the late and early twentieth centuries.

This comprehensive research book represents the first complete integration of current knowledge in this area. It addresses issues associated with poultry breeding particularly by examining quantitative and molecular genetics and the uses of transgenic technology. A special section covers the important area of disease resistance and transmission