Cattle and Colonialism: An Animal-Centred History of Southern Africa 1652 to 1960s (signed)

Doctoral thesis. The thesis poses the question: what were the major subjective and collective impacts of colonialism in southern Africa on cattle? Informed by myriad scientific and social science developments that recognise animals as sentient beings, the project conceives of cattle as subjects, as centre of experience who have minds and emotions, and who were thus were capable of being subjectively and collectively impacted by colonial systems in the region. The thesis explores different major impacts of colonialism including early colonial encounters such as their capture and subjugation as wagon pullers, major disease epidemics and corresponding veterinary regimes and biomedical control, the development of industrial slaughterhouses and animal flesh markets, and the expansion of breeding programmes. The impacts are explored in terms of how they subjectively affected cattle, and how they affected cattle as groups.

Softcover. English. Leiden. 2021. ISBN: 0. 353 pp. Good with inscription inside. Book No: 2506270