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Author Sluyter, Andrew, 1958- author.

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

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
Summary In this volume, Andrew Sluyter demonstrates 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, labour, property and commerce in the Atlantic world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-295) and index.
Contents Atlantic Networks and Local Frontiers -- New Spain -- Louisiana -- Barbuda -- The Pampas -- The Tasajo Trail -- Legacy and Promise.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Ranching -- America -- History.
Ranching.
America.
History.
Cattle herding -- America -- History.
Cattle herding.
Africans -- America -- History.
Africans.
Black people -- America -- History.
Black people.
Cattle herders -- America -- History.
Cattle herders.
Frontier and pioneer life -- America.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Social networks -- America -- History.
Social networks.
America -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
America -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
America -- Civilization -- African influences.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sluyter, Andrew, 1958- Black ranching frontiers. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2012 9780300179927 (DLC) 2012012359 (OCoLC)785865080
ISBN 9780300183238 (electronic book)
0300183232 (electronic book)
9780300179927 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0300179928 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781283742344
1283742349