Andrew Sluyter

Dados Biográficos

ID685796
NOMEAndrew Sluyter
PRENOMESAndrew
SOBRENOMESluyter
ASSINATURASLUYTER A
AFILIAÇÕESLouisiana State University
ORCID0000-0002-1509-0681
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TOTAL DE OBRAS55
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES224
TOTAL COMO AUTOR55
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1992
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H10

  • The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade

    Andrew SluyterARTICLESlavery and Abolition2024

    When deaths among the enslaved and crew occurred during the eighteenth-century voyages of the vessels of the Middelburg Commercial Company, many of the officers who kept logbooks aboard drew skulls and crossbones, crosses, hourglasses, and other icons to mark those deaths. While some scholars have previously noted those icons preserved in the margins of 109 logbooks in the Zeeuws Archive in Middelburg, the Netherlands, this first comprehensive de…

  • Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

    Open AccessAndrew SluyterARTICLEJournal of American History2022Citada por: 2

    This collection of essays about the plantations that have lined the banks of the lower Mississippi River from colonial times through the present aspires to make, quoting the editor, “material normally reserved for academic discussions accessible to the general reader” (p. 9). The well-known Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River (1858) by Marie Adrien Persac is the leitmotiv that graces the book jacket and reappears, to greater or lesser d…

  • Death on the Middle Passage

    Open AccessAndrew SluyterARTICLEEsclavages & Post-esclavages2020

    Cartographic representations of the Middle Passage are nearly nonexistent but have great potential to increase understanding of the Atlantic slave trade as a complement to dominant, narrative approaches. Perhaps the congenital relationship between colonialism, the slave trade, and the mapping tools of the discipline of geography has dissuaded many from believing that cartography can contribute to critical understanding of the Middle Passage. None…

  • The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century

    Open AccessAndrew SluyterARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    This collection of engaging essays provides a timely window into just how rapidly recent research on the early colonial Caribbean has grown and diversified. In their brief introduction, the editors argue that the field somewhat languished after Carl Ortwin Sauer authored The Early Spanish Main (1966) in the 1960s. Whether that view is accurate or not—especially when considering works by scholars from beyond North America and by nonhistorians, and…

  • Challenges Of Elephant Conservation

    Open AccessPeter Ngugi Kamau, Andrew SluyterARTICLEGeographical Review2018Citada por: 3Referências: 24

    Understanding the reasons for conflict between elephants and people who live adjacent to conservation areas remains key to recruiting them as allies in preserving elephant populations. The Tsavo region of Kenya has become a notable battleground for elephant conservation in East Africa, characterized by ivory poachers, crop damages by elephants in communities adjacent to parks, and electric fencing to control human and wildlife mobility. Oral hist…

  • Black Ranching Frontiers

    Andrew SluyterBOOKBlack Ranching Frontiers2017

    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 s…

  • Humboldt’s Mexico

    Open AccessAndrew SluyterARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2017

  • Cattle Colonialism

    Andrew SluyterARTICLEJournal of American History2016Citada por: 1

    Several generations of scholars have demonstrated the fundamental role of cattle ranching in the colonization of the Americas and their environmental history. This book adds to that literature by comparing California—one of the key colonial ranching frontiers of North America—to the more peripheral, less-studied Hawaii. Rather than treating the two ranching frontiers sequentially, each chapter treats a particular theme relevant to both, revealing…

  • African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, and Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Neotropics

    Open AccessAndrew Sluyter, Chris S Duvall et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2016Citada por: 9Referências: 46

    Fire regimes emerge partly from human activities that reflect cultural‐ecological knowledge of the relationships among fire, vegetation, grazing, climate, and other variables, as well as social relations. More knowledge of such "fire cultures," past and present, therefore remains necessary to better understand the causes and persistent consequences of landscape burning. In the neotropics, people have used fire for centuries to manage livestock pa…

  • Centering Animals in Latin American History

    Andrew SluyterARTICLEEthnohistory2016

    Many ethnohistorians will initially doubt the need for a collection of essays to “counteract the relative invisibility of animals in Latin American historiography” (5). After all, animals and other biota, from plants to pathogens, have long been prominent in historical studies of Latin America and the Caribbean.Yet the editors of this collection intend a much more radical centering of animals than, for example, histories about horses and the impa…

  • Dreaming of Dry Land

    Andrew SluyterARTICLEThe AAG Review of Books2015

    Vera S. Candiani. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. xxix and 376 pp., maps, tables, illustrations, notes, index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 9780804788052); $48.00 electronic (ISBN 978080479107

  • Sixteenth-century soil carbon sequestration rates based on Mexican land-grant documents

    Open AccessRichard Hunter, Andrew SluyterARTICLEThe Holocene2015Citada por: 2Referências: 19

    A significant gap in our understanding of global change involves the linkages between historical land-use and land-cover change (LULCC), Holocene terrestrial carbon (C) pool fluxes, and climate change. To address that research problem, this method uses land grants for sheep ranches awarded in early colonial (1521–1620 CE) Mexico to quantify the amount of land converted from cropland to pastureland. Soil is the largest terrestrial C pool, and conv…

  • How Africans and Their Descendants Participated in Establishing Open-Range Cattle Ranching in the Americas

    Andrew SluyterARTICLEEnvironment and History2015Citada por: 2

    Following the introduction of cattle into the Caribbean in 1493, open-range ranching proliferated in a series of frontiers across the grasslands of the Americas through the nineteenth century, establishing novel social and environmental relations with consequences that persist to the present. While historians have recognised that Africans and Afro-descendants were involved in the establishment of those ranching frontiers, the emphasis has been on…

  • Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City

    Open AccessAndrew SluyterARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2014

  • Historia de Las Antillas No Hispanas

    Andrew SluyterARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2013

    This volume should interest many Latin Americanists not only because it provides a detailed overview of the history of a large part of the Caribbean from late precolonial through postcolonial times, but also because it does so from an unusual perspective. The extensive Spanish-language literature on the Caribbean more typically treats Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. And, in fact, the three other volumes of this series synthesize th…

  • Barbuda

    Andrew SluyterCHAPTERBlack ranching frontiers2012

    This chapter examines the role of blacks in the open-range cattle herding of Barbuda, one of the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, from the seventeenth century onward. The possibility that black Barbudans might have played some role in establishing cattle ranching in the Lesser Antilles requires study, both because understanding the unique social and environmental relations that emerge in particular places has intrinsic value and because networks…

  • The Tasajo Trail

    Andrew SluyterCHAPTERBlack ranching frontiers2012

  • New Spain

    Andrew SluyterCHAPTERBlack ranching frontiers2012

    This chapter examines New Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the lowlands along the Gulf of Mexico where cattle ranching first became established. By the seventeenth century, the cattle population of New Spain had boomed and two dominant ranching districts had emerged. Minor ranching districts became established along the Pacific coast, but not until 1540. Blacks actually had much more opportunity to make creative contr…

  • The Pampas

    Andrew SluyterCHAPTERBlack ranching frontiers2012

    This chapter looks at the Pampas of Argentina and Uruguay in the nineteenth century. Some scholars have demonstrated that the rural Pampas also had a substantial black population from colonial times through the middle of the nineteenth century. During colonial times blacks do not seem to have played a creative role in establishing herding practices on the Pampas nor African grasses a major role compared to the American tropics, but the conjunctio…

  • Atlantic Networks and Local Frontiers

    Andrew SluyterCHAPTERBlack ranching frontiers2012

    This chapter outlines the Atlantic actor-network approach which aims to contribute to the collective effort to understanding more thoroughly the processes that connected places in Africa, Europe, and America. The chapter also highlights one of the most prominent areas on the map that stretches across Africa and has been a major center of open-range cattle herding for millennia. Several areas of open-range cattle ranching occurred in Europe in the…

  • Black Ranching Frontiers

    Andrew SluyterBOOKBlack ranching frontiers2012

    This book explains the role of blacks in establishing cattle ranching in a range of places throughout the Americas. It demonstrates that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing production systems so fundamental to the environmental and social relations of the colonies that their consequences persist to the present. This book focuses on a sequence of cases, each concerned with a particular ranching frontier and its connections t…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas

    Open AccessAndrew SluyterARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2012

  • Barbuda

    Open AccessAlan Potter, Amy E Potter et al.ARTICLEFocus on Geography2012Referências: 5

  • The Role of Blacks in Establishing Cattle Ranching in Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century

    Andrew SluyterARTICLEAgricultural History2012

    A longstanding assumption posits that white ranchers from the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, provided the knowledge to establish the first cattle ranches in Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, that blacks merely provided the labor, and that the herding ecology involved was the same as that of the Acadian ranchers who followed. Reconstruction of the locations of the first major ranches and the backgrounds of their owner…

  • The Freedom of Speech

    Andrew Sluyter

    This latest monograph by Miles Ogborn perfectly illustrates the current renaissance in research on the colonial Caribbean. Scholars applying innovative approaches have been able to elicit understan