Cattle Colonialism

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 contrasts as well as many similarities and linkages. The first chapter details the introduction of cattle into each frontier over the late eighteenth century, by the Spaniards in California and the British in Hawaii, and those colonizers' parallel thinking regarding the civilizing role of livestock. The impacts on nature and native culture that followed form the theme of the next chapter, which oddly is titled “Landscapes” despite the section's distinct lack of use of the landscape concept, scarcity even of the word landscape, absence of maps to analyze transformation, and failure to engage the literature on landscape's material and discursive roles in colonialism

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• The American West and the World

  Open Access•Janne Lahti•American West and the World•2018

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