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Creatures of Empire : how domestic animals transformed early America Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks SF 51 .A655 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Virginia DeJohn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Livestock--United States--History.
- Livestock.
- Livestock--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Human-animal relationships--United States--History.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- United States--History--Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
- United States.
- America--Colonization--Social aspects.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- 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
- Full circle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195158601
- 9780195158601
- OCLC:
- 56963729
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