| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

Margaret Derry. Ontario's Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 221. $50.00.

Margaret Derry treats a subject often overlooked even by agricultural historians. A professional historian who raises purebred cattle in Ontario, Derry explores a wide array of issues connected with or affecting the world of purebred breeders during the half century after 1870. In doing so, the author eschews a social history approach in favor of a focus on the scientific-genetic element of the purebred cattle industry, a strategy that relies heavily on primary research in breeder journals and technical reports and one that "tend(s) to focus on the herds . . . as much as on the people who created them" (pp. vii-viii). . . .

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