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Format:

Book

Author:

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn.

Title:

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

Publisher, Date:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Description:

xi, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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

Subjects:

Livestock -- United States -- History.

Livestock -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.

Human-animal relationships -- United States -- History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Chickwallop and the strange beast: Indians and animals in early America -- The deer with the red collar: English ideas about 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 -- Forgiving trespasses: living with livestock in early America -- A prophecy fulfilled: from cooperation to the displacement of Indians -- Full circle.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

2004043401

ISBN:

9780195158601

9780195304466

0195304462

0195158601

Other Number:

54669883

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

147973

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

636 Anderson