Cattle Colonialism

An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i

John Ryan Fischer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3606-1 (ISBN)

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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.

John Ryan Fischer is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Zusatzinfo	6 halftones, 1 tables
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4696-3606-9 / 1469636069
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-3606-1 / 9781469636061
Zustand	Neuware