Cattle colonialism : an environmental history of the conquest of California and Hawai'i / John Ryan Fischer
- Author:
- Fischer, John Ryan
- Published:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2015
- Physical Description:
- xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Series:
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- Contents:
- Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Reactions -- Trade -- Labor -- Property.
- Summary:
- "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"--
- Subject(s):
- Ranching—Environmental aspects—California—History
- Ranching—Environmental aspects—Hawaii—History
- Ranching—Economic aspects—California—History
- Ranching—Economic aspects—Hawaii—History
- Ecology
- Economic history
- Ranching—Economic aspects
- Ranching—Environmental aspects
- California—Environmental conditions—History
- Hawaii—Environmental conditions—History
- California—Economic conditions—History
- Hawaii—Economic conditions—History
- California
- Hawaii
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781469625126 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1469625121 (cloth ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
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