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The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Hardcover)
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The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Hardcover)
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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.
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