Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
- ISBN-10
- 0195304462
- ISBN-13
- 9780195304466
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Virginia DeJohn Anderson
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