Research Catalog

Title

The animal in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail.

Author

Mikhail, Alan, 1979-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xiv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have been locked into relationships with other animals. Humans ate, fought, prayed, and moved with animals. In this original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of the transformations of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. He uses the history of the empire's most important province, Egypt, to explain how human interactions with livestock, dogs, and charismatic megafauna changed more in a few centuries than they had for millennia. The human world became one in which animals' social and economic functions were diminished. Without animals, humans had to remake the societies they had built around the intimate and cooperative interactions between species. The political and even evolutionary consequences of this separation of people and animals were wrenching and often violent. In tracing these interspecies histories, this book offers a bold program for Ottoman historians--highlighting a new capacious periodization of the empire's history, integrating environmental history and other methodologies, and opening up archives in close to a dozen countries. The wide-ranging and creative analyses on offer also push far beyond Ottoman history to engage issues in animal studies, economic history, early modern history, and environmental history. Carefully crafted and compellingly argued, The Animal in Ottoman Egypt tells the story of the high price humans and animals paid as they entered the modern world"--

Subjects

• Human-animal relationships > Egypt
• Animals and civilization > Egypt
• Egypt > History > 1517-1882

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305) and index.

Contents

Preface : Three species -- Introduction : Cephalopods in the Nile -- Part One. Burdened and Beastly. 1. Early modern human and animal ; 2. Unleashing the beast -- Part Two. Bark and Bite. 3. In-between ; 4. Evolution in the streets -- Part Three. Charisma and Capital. 5. Enchantment ; 6. Encagement -- Conclusion : The human ends.

Call Number

JFE 15-6130

ISBN

• 9780199315277 (hardback)
• 0199315272 (hardback)

LCCN

2013036490

OCLC

853310351

Author

Mikhail, Alan, 1979- author.

Title

The animal in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-6130