Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 Contributor(s): Sluyter, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300179928 ISBN-13: 9780300179927 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $71.28 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Agriculture & Food |
Dewey: 636.010 |
LCCN: 2012012359 |
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.39" W x 9.87" (1.35 lbs) 308 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world. Sluyter shows that Africans' ideas and creativity helped to establish a production system so fundamental to the environmental and social relations of the American colonies that the consequences persist to the present. He examines various methods of cattle production, compares these methods to those used in Europe and the Americas, and traces the networks of actors that linked that Atlantic world. The use of archival documents, material culture items, and ecological relationships between landscape elements make this book a methodologically and substantively original contribution to Atlantic, African-American, and agricultural history. |