Like Engend’ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England

- List of charts, tables and plates
- Preface
- Introduction
- Breeding strategies
- The classical tradition: theories of heredity and breeding practice in Greece and Rome
- Generation and the market: the background to animal breeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- The horse: breeding for war, sport and fashion
- Horse breeding in the eighteenth century: blood, speed and carriages
- Cattle breeding: dairymen, graziers and the techniques of their \'fancy\'
- Breeding sheep: mutton displaces wool
- Summary and conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Charts:

1. Approximate distribution of the dominant types of sheep in England and Wales in the late seventeenth century page
2. Approximate distribution of the dominant types of sheep in England and Wales, c. 1770
3. Outline pedigree of Bakewell\'s main sire line

Tables:

1. Fleece weight data by county, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
2. Sheep carcass weights for the eighteenth century
3. Sheep fleece weights in the eighteenth century
4. Sheep valuations of Nicholas Toke

Plates:

1. Ovis musimon (European moufflon) - ram
2. Ovis musimon (European moufflon) - ewe
3. Equus przewalski (Przewalski\'s horse)
4. The \'reconstructed\' aurochs
5. The match between Aaron and Driver at Maidenhead
6. A supposed portrait of the racehorse Eclipse
7. Otho, with John Larkin up
8. Mares and foals in a river landscape
9. The Duke of Ancaster\'s bay stallion Blank walking towards a mare
10. Bay Ascham, a stallion, led through a gate to a mare
11. The Longhorn bull Shakespeare
12. A long-horned Lancaster cow bred by Fowler of Little Rollright
13. A Staffordshire-Longhorn cross heifer
14. The Blackwell Ox
15. The Lincolnshire Ox
16. The Old Wiltshire breed
17. The Old Norfolk breed
18. The Romney Marsh breed
19. The Old Lincoln breed
20. A shorn New Leicester ram
21. The Southdown breed
22. Robert Bakewell\'s Leicestershire ram Two Pounder
23. Hiring out rams at Dishley, Leicestershire