Cattle colonialism
Subtitle: an environmental history of the conquest of California and Hawai'i
By: John Ryan Fischer
Series: Flows, migrations, and exchanges; Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781469625126
Subjects: Ranching; Economic conditions; Environmental conditions; History
Description: "Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Arrivals; title: Landscapes; title: Reactions; title: Trade; title: Labor; title: Property.