John Ryan Fischer - Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawaii

FLOWS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXCHANGES

The Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges series publishes new works of environmental history that explore the cross-border movements of organisms and materials that have shaped the modern world, as well as the varied human attempts to understand, regulate, and manage these movements.

Many people and institutions have been instrumental in helping me conduct the research and writing of this book over the years. Some of the early research for this book, as well as the intellectual foundation for my exploration of invasive species in history, came from the National Science Foundations generous Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) on Biological Invasions, which I received while at the University of California, Davis. I would especially like to thank Kevin Rice, Carole Hom, and my fellow IGERT trainees. Research support from the UC Davis Agricultural Resource Center allowed me to conduct archival work in Hawaii, and the Huntington Librarys Wilbur R. Jacobs fellowship made possible a valuable stay at that excellent institution. Further funding from UC Davis, including the UC Davis history department, was also instrumental in funding archival research. The archivists and staff at the Huntington Library, the Bancroft Library, the California State Library, the UC Davis Library, the Hawaii State Archives, the Hawaiian Mission Childrens Society, and the Bishop Museum Library all played integral roles in my research as well.

Louis Warren helped me through every stage of this project and provided numerous excellent ideas. Alan Taylor and Andrs Resndez also provided valuable insights, comments, and edits. Conevery Bolton Valencius, Peter Kastor, Clarence Walker, Karen Halttunen, and Eric Rauchway influenced my thinking and development as a historian in seminars and other venues. David Igler, Carolyn Merchant, Virginia DeJohn Anderson, and Matt Chew have provided helpful comments as chairs and/or commenters of conference panels during which I presented some of this work. A particular panel of young historians of Hawaii at the Pacific Coast Branch meeting of the American Historical Association in San Diego was very helpful in my thinking, and I would also like to thank my co-panelists, Seth Archer, Larry Kessler, and Gregory Rosenthal. Robert Chester, Lisbeth Haas, Peter Mills, Joshua Reid, and Kurt Leichtle are among the other colleagues who have offered valuable professional advice, shown me their own work, or provided helpful comments on my work. Editors Susan Wladaver-Morgan and Carl Abbott at the Pacific Historical Review provided useful comments on some of the earliest material I wrote for this project. Id also like to thank the team at the University of North Carolina Press, including my editor, Chuck Grench, who helped to shepherd this book into publication. Andrew Isenberg and an anonymous reviewer gave me essential advice that helped me refine my arguments and improve the manuscript overall.

Last, but far from least, this book would not exist without the love and support of my family. Thanks to my sister, Maggie, for sense of humor and support, and my profoundest thanks to my parents, my mother, Vicki, and my late father, Pete, who gave everything they could to help me achieve my dreams. Thank you to Frank and Carolyn Van Orden, who have been the best in-laws anyone could hope for. Finally, and most importantly, thank you to Vanessa Van Orden, who has been my foundation and inspiration through the long process of working on this book. My two wonderful daughters, Iris and Caroline, were worth every moment of distraction.