Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University.
发表于2024-12-22
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 环境史 历史 动物 科学史 动物研究 Animal 英文原版 环境
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.
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.
动物史, 经济史, 环境史, 第二章Unleashing the beast非常有意思.
评分Alan Mikhail, the rising star in the field of environmental history, promoted to be a full professor in Yale within 3 years, directly from an assistant professorship. well, this book is very informative and useful to those who want to write animal histories. the main body is about 180 pages, but the notes and bibliography parts are over 140 pages.
评分厉害!
评分Alan Mikhail, the rising star in the field of environmental history, promoted to be a full professor in Yale within 3 years, directly from an assistant professorship. well, this book is very informative and useful to those who want to write animal histories. the main body is about 180 pages, but the notes and bibliography parts are over 140 pages.
评分好俏皮又简略,正文只占了一半页码【University of California, Berkeley,2008年博士论文】
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书