TY - BOOK ID - 80831048 TI - Black ranching frontiers : African cattle herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 PY - 2012 SN - 9780300183238 0300183232 9780300179927 0300179928 9781283742344 1283742349 PB - New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press, DB - UniCat KW - Ranching KW - Cattle herding KW - Africans KW - Blacks KW - Cattle herders KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Social networks KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Border life KW - Homesteading KW - Pioneer life KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Manners and customs KW - Pioneers KW - Cowherds KW - Herders KW - Ethnology KW - Cattle KW - Herding KW - Cattle ranching KW - Agriculture KW - Animal culture KW - Beef cattle KW - Range management KW - History. KW - History KW - Handling KW - America KW - Africa KW - Americas KW - New World KW - Western Hemisphere KW - Social life and customs. KW - Race relations KW - Civilization KW - African influences. KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Black people KW - 1500-1900. KW - Africains KW - Africans. KW - Amerika. KW - Black people. KW - Boskapsskötsel KW - Bovins KW - Cattle herders. KW - Cattle herding. KW - Frontier and pioneer life. KW - Lantbruk KW - Manners and customs. KW - Race relations. KW - Ranching. KW - Réseaux sociaux KW - Social networks. KW - Histoire KW - Historia. KW - Conduite du troupeau KW - America. KW - Amérique KW - Civilisation KW - Influence africaine. KW - Mœurs et coutumes. KW - Relations raciales KW - Histoire. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80831048 AB - 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. ER -