For science, love and money: the social worlds of poultry and rabbit breeding in Britain, 1900-1940

This paper traces the joint histories of poultry and rabbit breeding by fanciers, and for commercial and scientific purposes, in early 20th-century Britain. I show that the histories of the social worlds that bred for these different purposes are intertwined, as are the histories of poultry and rabbit breeding in general. To properly understand the history of scientific breeding we must therefore understand the general context of breeding in which this occurred. In the paper I show that as fancy poultry and rabbits were taken up for scientific research at the start of the 20th century they became scientific specimens and boundary objects between the social worlds. Their existence as boundary objects motivated the social worlds to coordinate their work through translators and trading zones. By the 1930s all three coordination methods were being used simultaneously

A record of agricultural policy 1952-1954

Forward : This Occasional Paper No.2 continues for a further two years the account contained in "A Record of Agricultural Policy 1947-1952" (Occasional Paper No.1). It covers the period from mid-1952 to mid-1954 when food rationing and price controls were gradually dismantled, and replaced by free markets, combined with various forms of minimum support prices

A Record of Agricultural Policy 1952-1954

Forward : This Occasional Paper No.2 continues for a further two years the account contained in "A Record of Agricultural Policy 1947-1952" (Occasional Paper No.1). It covers the period from mid-1952 to mid-1954 when food rationing and price controls were gradually dismantled, and replaced by free markets, combined with various forms of minimum support prices

The Economics of African countries

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