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Imperial Creatures - Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Paperback)
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Imperial Creatures - Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Paperback)
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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
multi-disciplinary 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.
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