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SUMMARY:The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-ce
 ntury French Empire - Jens Amborg (Uppsala University)
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DESCRIPTION:In 1766\, the naturalist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton was commis
 sioned by the French state to conduct breeding experiments to improve the 
 French sheep population. With his country's colonial network put at his di
 sposal\, he received live sheep from England\, Spain\, Morocco and\, most 
 spectacularly\, Tibet. While colonial botany has received much well-deserv
 ed attention in recent scholarship\, we know considerably less about the r
 ole of animal breeding in colonial natural history. By focusing on the voy
 age of the sheep brought from Tibet to France\, this paper explores the an
 imal side of science and empire.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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