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Author Anderson, Virginia DeJohn.

Title Creatures of Empire : how domestic animals transformed early America / Virginia DeJohn Anderson.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  636 An24c 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xi, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I: Thinking about animals. Chickwallop and the strange beast: Indians and animals in early America -- The deer with the red collar: English ideas about animals -- II: Settling with animals. The company of cattle: domestication and colonization -- The wild gangs of the Chesapeake: livestock husbandry in the south -- A world of pastures and pounds: raising livestock in early New England -- III: Contending with animals. Forgiving trespasses: living with livestock in early America -- A prophecy fulfilled: from cooperation to the displacement of Indians -- Epilogue. Full circle.
Summary "When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans - not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the new world."--Jacket.
Subject Livestock -- United States -- History.
Livestock -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Human-animal relationships -- United States -- History.
Indians, Treatment of.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
America -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
Colonization -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01352477
Human-animal relationships. (OCoLC)fst00963482
Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
Livestock. (OCoLC)fst01000722
Livestock -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01000847
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1600-1775
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Nonfiction.
ISBN 0195158601
9780195158601
9780195304466
0195304462

 
    
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