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.
| ISBN: | 9780300179927 |
| Publication date: | 27th November 2012 |
| Author: | Andrew Sluyter |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 308 pages |
| Series: | Yale Agrarian Studies Series |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology |
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.
Black Ranching Frontiers features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology
Black Ranching Frontiers is available in Hardback
Black Ranching Frontiers was written by Andrew Sluyter and published by Yale University Press
Black Ranching Frontiers has 308 pages
Yes it is part of Yale Agrarian Studies Series series