Article ID: CBB001212530

Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt (2013)

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WE HUMANS ARE NOT ALONE. For the vast majority of human history, until at least the early nineteenth century, the chief concern of human communities was their multiple relationships with animals---how to use them, eat them, avoid them, and wear them. Animals are indeed so ubiquitous in human history that they have remained largely invisible to historians.1 In conjunction with scholarly work in fields such as anthropology, literary studies, philosophy, and geography, many historians are now turning their attention to this most significant of historical relationships: that between humans and other animals. The results of this research have taken many forms. One of the primary areas of interest in the current literature on the history of human-animal interactions is the cultural, symbolic, and political roles and uses of animals in various human societies. Cultural historians interested in subjects such as the history of petkeeping have made important contributions to the historiography of human affect and the study of class and domesticity (in all its meanings).2 Political, intellectual, and environmental historians have considered the history of animals in the service of fleshing out genealogies of concepts such as brutality, animality, wildness, the exotic, tameness, humanity, and human and animal rights.3 Some environmental and agricultural historians have focused …

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Authors & Contributors
Mikhail, Alan
Janet M. Davis
Melvin-Koushki, Matthew
Mark Hengerer
Nadir Weber
Veronica Aniceti
Concepts
Human-animal relationships
Animals
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Animal rights
Animal power
Animal welfare
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
17th century
19th century
18th century
16th century
Places
Ottoman Empire
Egypt
England
Scotland
Sicily
Cuba
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