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CREATURES OF EMPIRE
HOW DOMESTIC ANIMALS TRANSFORMED EARLY AMERICA |
| By: |
Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£22.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195158601 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195158601 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
11 November, 2004 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
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. Presenting an account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, this book shows that livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. |
| Synopsis: |
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. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the means to realize America's potential, a goal that Indians, who lacked domestic animals, had failed to accomplish. Settlers believed that Indians who learned to keep livestock would also advance along the path toward civility and Christian faith. But colonists failed to anticipate that the animals they hoped would convert Indians instead generated friction between the two people as Indians encountered free-ranging livestock at almost every turn, often trespassing in their cornfields.Moreover, concerned about feeding their growing populations and committed to a style of husbandry that required far more space than they had expected, colonists could see no alternative but to appropriate Indian land.This created tensions that reached the boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. And it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries. A stunning account that presents our history in a truly new light, Creatures of Empire restores a vital element of our past, illuminating one of the great forces of colonization and the expansion westward. |
| Illustrations: |
15 halftones, 2 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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