Creatures of Empire
How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
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Publication
2004-09-30 - Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
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- Internet Archivecreaturesofempir00ande
- ISBN-100195158601
- ISBN-139780195158601
- LibraryThing1464177
- Open LibraryOL7390431M
Description
"When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans - not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the new world."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
One of the oddest historical markers in all of New England can be found in the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts.
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