Industrializing Organisms: Introducing

Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? Industrializing Organisms brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history--from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and manipulated animals.

Preface

vii

PHILIP SCRANTON

Introduction: The Garden in the Machine: Toward an Evolutionary History of Technology

1

(18)

EDMUND RUSSELL

Part I: Plants, Profits, Politics, and Power

"For Profit and Pleasure": Peter Henderson and the Commercialization of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America

19

(24)

SUSAN WARREN LANMAN

Biological Innovation in American Wheat Production: Science, Policy, and Environmental Adaptation

43

(42)

ALAN L. OLMSTEAD and PAUL W. RHODE

Creating an Industrial Plant: The Biotechnology of Sugar Production in Cuba

85

(22)

MARK J. SMITH

Manufacturing Green Gold: Industrial Tree Improvement and the Power of Heredity in the Postwar United States

107

(36)

WILLIAM BOYD and SCOTT PRUDHAM

Part II: Animals, Aggression, Arrogance, and Analysis

War Horses: Equine Technology in the American Civil War

143

(24)

ANN N. GREENE

Turbo-Cows: Producing a Competitive Animal in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

167

(24)

BARBARA ORLAND

Canine Technologies, Model Patients: The Historical Production of Hemophiliac Dogs in American Biomedicine

191

(24)

STEPHEN PEMBERTON

Making the Chicken of Tomorrow: Reworking Poultry as Commodities and as Creatures, 1945-1990

215

(22)

ROGER HOROWITZ

Hogs, Antibiotics, and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture

237

(24)

MARK R. FINLAP

Afterword

261

(6)

SUSAN R. SCHREPFER

Notes on Contributors

267

(2)

Index

269

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Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History

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