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Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)

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Within the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai’i underwent essential cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways in which allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological resources presented. However the imposition of new property laws limited these indigenous responses, and Pacific cattle frontiers in the long run became the motive force in the back of Euro-American political and commercial domination, under which native residents lost land and sovereignty and faced demographic collapse.

Environmental historians have too incessantly lost sight of California and Hawai’i, in spite of the roles the regions played Within the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.

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