{"product_id":"black-ranching-frontiers-andrew-sluyter-9780300179927","title":"Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSluyter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Sluyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300179928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300179927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.87h x 6.39w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013","brand":"Andrew Sluyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44302058094847,"sku":"9780300179927","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52abde50-93ff-4e0b-aa7b-ad0cbec8ffba.jpg?v=1695159276","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-ranching-frontiers-andrew-sluyter-9780300179927","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}