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Title: Cattle Colonialism
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
Author: John Ryan Fischer
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781469636061
ISBN: 9781469636061
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Genre: History
Release Date: 30/08/2017
Description: In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological resources presented. But the imposition of new property laws limited these indigenous responses, and Pacific cattle frontiers ultimately became the driving force behind Euro-American political and commercial domination, under which native residents lost land and sovereignty and faced demographic collapse.

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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Weight: 420g
Book Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Release Year: 2017

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