Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America is an interesting account of the role European domestic animals played in the early history of European settlement in the United States. Little attention is often placed on the historical significance of domestic farm animals imported by the English who settled New England and the Chesapeake Bay. This historian takes relatively mundane historical records and accounts and turns those into a highly readable argument for the reasons Europeans expanded their settlements in America during the seventeenth century. She examines the underlying worldviews of the Europeans and the Algonquian-speaking First Nations whose values and beliefs clash at the encounter. She argues that the domestic farm animals of the Europeans needed expansive amounts of grazing land and this pressing requirement resulted in cultural displacement of the New England First Nations. A compelling study that sheds light on this overlooked part of Indian and white relations.
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