suit these novel grazing lands, the refrigerated holds of ocean liners and the tastes of metropolitan meat-eaters. The fact that the British – ‘nothing if not gustatory chauvinists’ (p. 15) – were persuaded to move away from the ‘roast beef of Old England’, Woods shows, was caught up in the reality and rhetoric of the ‘native’ breeds that created a world after Britain’s meat-eating image. The Herds Shot Round the World is an accomplished, important and compelling study that marshals its wide-ranging archival research on breeding practice and discourse in order to plot the cultural, ecological and (geo-)political as well as economic forces that shaped the growth of British meat markets. The fact that these markets laid ‘the foundations of a globalizing industrial apparatus for meatmaking [. . .] whose legacy supplies the tables of the developed world today’ (p. 22) only goes to underline just how valuable the work should prove to scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Animal Studies, Eco-Criticism and environmental and imperial history. Even if the cattle and sheep at the centre of this book did not captivate the Victorians in quite the way pets and exotic animals did, Woods suggests that we ignore their significance at our peril.

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Elizabeth M. Holt，虚构的资本：丝绸、棉花和阿拉伯小说的兴起

适合这些新奇的牧场、远洋客轮的冷藏舱和大都市肉食者的口味。伍兹表示，英国人——“如果不是味觉沙文主义者，什么都不是”（第 15 页）——被说服远离“老英格兰的烤牛肉”这一事实，伍兹表示，被卷入了“本地人”的现实和言辞中在英国的肉食形象之后创造了一个世界的品种。The Herds Shot Round the World 是一项成就卓著、重要且引人入胜的研究，它整理了对育种实践和话语的广泛档案研究，以描绘塑造增长的文化、生态和（地缘）政治以及经济力量英国肉类市场。事实上，这些市场奠定了“全球化的肉类制造工业设备的基础”。. . ] 其遗产提供了当今发达国家的表格”（第 22 页）只是强调了这项工作应该向对动物研究、生态批评以及环境和帝国历史感兴趣的不同学科的学者证明其价值。即使本书中心的牛和羊并没有像宠物和外来动物那样吸引维多利亚时代的人，伍兹建议我们忽略它们的重要性会导致我们的危险。