My article on colonial cattle censuses has just been published in open access in The American Historical Review: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... 👇 Focusing on Madagascar, I show the significance of cattle census and their potential for historical analysis.
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Cattle Censuses: Analyzing Cattle Policies in Colonial Madagascar
Abstract. Colonial historians have analyzed how human population censuses were instrumental for state-making and ethnic categorization, and how they can be