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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827696203321

Autore

Sluyter Andrew <1958->

Titolo

Black ranching frontiers : African cattle herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 / / Andrew Sluyter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-74234-9

0-300-18323-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 308 p.) : ill., maps

Collana

Yale agrarian studies series

Disciplina

636/.010896073

Soggetti

Ranching - America - History

Cattle herding - America - History

Africans - America - History

Black people - America - History

Cattle herders - America - History

Frontier and pioneer life - America

Social networks - America - History

America Social life and customs

America Race relations History

America Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Atlantic Networks and Local Frontiers -- New Spain -- Louisiana -- Barbuda -- The Pampas -- The Tasajo Trail -- Legacy and Promise.

Sommario/riassunto

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.