{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-cow-andrew-kettler-9781350568273","title":"The Once and Future Cow: Agency, Appetite, and the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis groundbreaking book shows how cows' choices have influenced the economic, agricultural, and socio-political development of the Americas.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the interconnected transformations of cattle, land, and labor from the 18th-century colonial Caribbean to the early national period of the 19th century to the present day, Kettler and Yingling demonstrate how cows impact on nearly every major aspect of development in the Americas, including colonization, slavery, our ability to objectify animals we consume, our current foodways, environmental degradation, and the climate emergency. Bringing together research from many fields, but proceeding always in a straightforward, chronological, historical manner underrepresented in other areas of animal studies, this book ultimately restores cattle as subjects of their own lives who in seeking to escape exploitation have deeply affected the legal, property, and geographical frameworks that haunt us today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Kettler,Charlton W. Yingling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350568279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350568273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.11d","brand":"Andrew Kettler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48217839436031,"sku":"9781350568273","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebfd658e-a860-4666-ac70-dcfe96579478.jpg?v=1771999778","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-once-and-future-cow-andrew-kettler-9781350568273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}