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Author: Robert W. Wilcox
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9781477311141
ISBN 10: 1477311149
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 24 January 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * A welcome, and important, contribution...one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies *
A welcome, and important, contribution…one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography *
A welcome, and important, contribution...one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography *
A welcome, and important, contribution...one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography *
Author Information
Robert W. Wilcox is an associate professor of history at Northern Kentucky University.
