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

Robert Bakewell is usually regarded as one of the legendary pioneers of the agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain. However, this book examines the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating earlier sources of many of Bakewell's opinions and procedures.Russell, Nicholas is the author of 'Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521306577 and ISBN 0521306574.