| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Virginia DeJohn Anderson. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 322. $37.50.
The story of European imperialism in the Americas has been analyzed politically, economically, and religiously, but ecologically only in recent decades. It turns out that the invaders were successful not so much because they were monarchists or capitalists or Catholics or Protestants but because they were transmitters, sometimes unconsciously, of certain kinds of organisms. Virginia DeJohn Anderson's book is a bushel basket of examples, along with informed analyses of the examples.	1
Her analyses are based on careful readings of the early histories of the English colonies in New England and the Chesapeake Bay region. These were scenes in the seventeenth century of the arrival of not one set of colonists, she says, but of two, the English and their livestock. Omission of the second makes understanding of the relations between the first and the incumbent humans, the Native Americans or Indians, impossible.	. . .

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