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  title info:
    title: Myxomatosis
    sub title: a history of pest control and the rabbit
  name:
    name part: Bartrip, P. W. J. (Peter W. J.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
    date issued: ©2008
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Myxomatosis, a viral disease of European wild rabbits, was discovered in South America in the 1890s. It was deliberately introduced in Australia and France in the 1950s and reached Britain in 1953. Within a year it had killed tens of millions of rabbits from Kent to the Shetlands. The British reaction to myxomatosis was mixed; members of the public reared on the tales of Beatrix Potter were appalled. With meat still rationed, consumers deplored the loss of a cheap and nutritious foodstuff. Many farmers, on the other hand, welcomed the rabbit's demise as a serious agricultural pest and actively spread the disease. However some lost their livelyhood through the spread of Myxomatosis, such as rough shooters who regretted the loss of prey and hatters and furriers who mourned the unavailability of the fur on which they depended. Rabbits also had champions within the 'establishment'; including Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of York, who both regarded myxomatosis as an abomination. Winston Churchill was personally influential in making its deliberate transmission a criminal offence. Even the farmers and foresters who applauded the rabbit's demise often had qualms about a disease that inflicted such a horrible death. Myxomatosis presented the authorities with difficult questions: should they try to contain the disease, encourage it, or do nothing? Should they take advantage of rabbit depopulation and try to exterminate the animal? Britain's myxomatosis outbreak has hitherto attracted little historical attention, notwithstanding parallels with other recent animal disease crises. In the first book dedicated to this subject, Peter Bartrip examines how the disease reached Britain. He argues it was not the government who was reesponsible, as many thought at the time, but instead identifies the individual who may have deliberatlely brought myxomatosis over from France. Bartrip tracks the spread of the virus throughout the country and considers the response of government an…
  table of contents: Before Bough Beech -- The war on the rabbit -- Narrative of a disease -- Accident or design? -- The Myxomatosis Advisory Committee -- Deliberate transmission -- After the deluge -- Agriculture and environment -- Attitude and opinion -- Conclusion.
  note: Peter W.J. Bartrip.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-266) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Myxomatosis
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: European rabbit
    topic: Control
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: European rabbit
    topic: Control
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Myxomatosis, Infectious
    topic: history
  subject:
    geographic: United Kingdom
  subject:
    topic: Myxomatose
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Lapin de garenne
    topic: Lutte contre
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Pest control
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Myxomatosis
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: SF997.5.R2 B37 2008eb
  classification: 632.69322094109045
  classification: 2008 K-841
  classification: SF 997.5.R2 B294m 2008
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    title info:
      title: Myxomatosis
    name:
      name part: Bartrip, P.W.J. (Peter W.J.).
    origin info:
      publisher: London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, ©2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2008300878
    identifier: (OCoLC)181069396
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 090407
    record change date: 20250218182658.4
    record identifier: in00005617735
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng