Book ID: CBB001422352

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (2014)

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Mikhail, Alan (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiv + 315 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail 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 intimate and cooperative interactions between species. The political and even evolutionary consequences of this separation of people and animals were wrenching and often violent. This book's interspecies histories underscore continuities between the early modern period and the nineteenth century and help to reconcile Ottoman and Arab histories. Further, the book highlights the importance of integrating Ottoman history with issues in animal studies, economic history, early modern history, and environmental history.

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Authors & Contributors
Giuliano Pinto
Tortorici, Zeb
Mikhail, Alan
Alberto Malvolti
Canington, Stephanie L.
Benedetta Piazzesi
Concepts
Human-animal relationships
Animals
Environmental history
Animal husbandry
Natural history
Agriculture
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
18th century
19th century
15th century
Places
Italy
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Tuscany (Italy)
England
Mexico
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