Download PDF Creatures of Empire How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Virginia DeJohn Anderson 9780195304466 Books
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When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World.
Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the means to realize America's potential. It was thought that if the Native Americans learned to keep livestock as well, they would be that much closer to assimilating the colonists' culture, especially their Christian faith. But colonists failed to anticipate the problems that would arise as Indians began encountering free-ranging livestock at almost every turn, often trespassing in their cornfields. Moreover, when growing populations and an expansive style of husbandry required far more space than they had expected, colonists could see no alternative but to appropriate Indian land. This created tensions that reached the boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. And it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries.
A stunning account that presents our history in a truly new light, Creatures of Empire restores a vital element of our past, illuminating one of the great forces of colonization and the expansion westward.
Download PDF Creatures of Empire How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Virginia DeJohn Anderson 9780195304466 Books
"The author tends to be a bit repetitious, but the subject matter is interesting for anyone interested in the early colonial period, particularly the relationship between white colonists and Native Americans."
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Creatures of Empire How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Virginia DeJohn Anderson 9780195304466 Books Reviews
- Humans are so arrogant that they write histories -- and current events-- as if they alone are responsible for what happens. They ignore the incredible contributions that dogs, and later, horses, have made to the sweep of history. Without them, history as we know it, wouldn't have occurred. That is easy enough to prove, but this book considers other animals as well, such as cattle and pigs. I was astonished to discover that so much of the colonists' and later Americans' treatment of Native Americans hinged upon the differing attitudes of each culture to domesticated animals. Also, Native Americans were often displaced because of the settlers' needs for grazing their herds. This book is very interesting and provides an original perspective on the settlement of The New World and its concomitant destruction of the Native peoples that the Europeans found here.
- One would not think that domestic animals would have played such a major role in the early development of our young nation but the author documents convincingly on how that actually occurred. A highly informative historical text on the development of early America and how livestock affected early European-Native American relations and our early local political structures.
- Remarkable tale of the stunning impact of pigs, cows, and horses on the cultures, people, and environments of the New World.
- Things you never knew, especially in this much detail. Long but interesting read. A side of American history they don't teach in school.
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- Hard to put down. The author really researched this book. It gives you a whole new slant on the 1600s. The differences between New England and the Chesapeake were brought out in length. We started lieing to the natives long before the mid-1800s.
- The author tends to be a bit repetitious, but the subject matter is interesting for anyone interested in the early colonial period, particularly the relationship between white colonists and Native Americans.
- I really enjoyed reading this book. I have read a fair amount of history books that outline the things that men (and women) have to done to either advance the cause of man or destroy all hope. But, this book provides an inside look at the domesticated animals that,inadvertently, helped the early English colonists to over-run and compromise the lifestyle of the natives Americans.
I respect the research and the writing in this book. The examples given are both plausible and easily understood.
