Imperial creatures: humans and other animals in colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (2019)
Barnard, Timothy P. (Author)
NUS Press
Physical Details: 264
Language: English
The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities but also animals. What was the relationship between these two processes in colonial Singapore? How did various interactions with animals enable changes in interactions between people, and the expression of power in human terms? The imposition of imperial power relationships was a process that was often complex and messy, and it led to the creation of new communities throughout the world, including the colonial port city of Singapore. Through a multidisciplinary consideration of fauna, this book weaves together a series of tales to document how animals were cherished, slaughtered, monitored and employed in a colonial society, to provide insight into how imperial rule was imposed on an island in Southeast Asia. Fauna and their histories of interacting with humans, thus, become useful tools for understanding our past, revealing the effects of establishing a colony on the biodiversity of a region, and the institutions that quickly transformed it. All animals, including humans, have been creatures of imperialism in Singapore. Their stories teach us lessons about the structures that upheld such a society and how it developed over time. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Kees Rookmaaker (2020) Review of "Imperial creatures: humans and other animals in colonial Singapore, 1819-1942". Archives of Natural History (pp. 413-413).
Review Eric Strahorn (July 2021) Review of "Imperial creatures: humans and other animals in colonial Singapore, 1819-1942". Environmental History (pp. 594-596).
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