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The chicken book / Page Smith and Charles Daniel.

by Smith, Page.

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Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000, ©1975.

082032213X (paperback ; alk. paper)

9780820322131 (paperback ; alk. paper)

x, 380 pages ; 23 cm

1. The Origin(s) of the Chicken -- 2. The Global Chicken -- 3. Aldrovandi -- 4. The Cock -- 5. Cockfighting -- 6. Cockfighting Continued -- 7. The Chicken Apothecary -- 8. The "Folk" Chicken -- 9. The Hen and Her Egg -- 10. The Egg and the Chick -- 11. The Century of the Chicken -- 12. The Decline of the Chicken -- 13. The Industrialization of the Chicken -- 14. The Fall of the Chicken (and Almost Everything Else) -- 15. On Keeping Chickens -- 16. The Culinary Chicken (and Egg).

"Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and characterize this noble fowl. As it traces the path of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the assembly-line hatcheries sprawled across modern America, this original, frequently astounding book passes along a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chicken's biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology."--Jacket.

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