The Once and Future Cow
Agency, Appetite, and the Anthropocene
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 5 February 2026
- ISBN 9781350568273
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language 677
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Short description:
A groundbreaking exploration of how cattle choices have influenced economic, agricultural, and socio-political development in the Americas
MoreLong description:
This groundbreaking book shows how cows' choices have influenced the economic, agricultural, and socio-political development of the Americas.
Tracing 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. States of Being: Agency and Animalia
1. Considering Cattle and the Colonial Caribbean
2. Tasting Cattle in New Ways
3. Conscious Cows: Sugar, Pens, and Policy
4. Denying Empathy in Modernity
5. Contemplating Cruelty
6. Biopower Over the Once and Future Cow
Conclusion: Contemporary Consequences of Consuming Cattle
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