Creatures of Empire
Subtitle: how domestic animals transformed early America
By: Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780195158601; 9780195304466
Subjects: Indianen; Aspect social; Bétail; Vee; Relations homme-animal; Colonization; Veeteelt; History; Koloniale periode; Livestock; Social aspects; Cultuurcontact; Histoire; Sociale aspecten; Colonisation; Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les; Kolonisten; Human-animal relationships; Treatment of Indians
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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Thinking about animals.; title: Chickwallop and the strange beast: Indians and animals in early America --; title: The deer with the red collar: English ideas about animals -- -- II: Settling with animals.; title: The company of cattle: domestication and colonization --; title: The wild gangs of the Chesapeake: livestock husbandry in the south --; title: A world of pastures and pounds: raising livestock in early New England -- -- III: Contending with animals.; title: Forgiving trespasses: living with livestock in early America --; title: A prophecy fulfilled: from cooperation to the displacement of Indians -- -- Epilogue.; title: Full circle.