Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

In keeping livestock, early American settlers inadvertently laid the groundwork for expansionism, as shown in a fascinating look at the earliest conflicts between the American colonists and the Native Americans, conflicts that had their roots in the domestication of animals.

"In CREATURES OF EMPIRE, [Anderson] has produced a rare instance of a book that can make us look again at aspects of the historical landscape which have long been taken for granted." - Edward Franklin Castetter (Times Literary Supplement, 7/15/05)

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