Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

Résumé de l' éditeur : "This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human societies, and world systems. Focusing primarily on the period 1500-1900, they explore how animals and their products shaped the relationships between populations in the IOW and Europeans arriving by maritime routes. By elucidating this fundamental yet under-explored aspect of encounters and exchanges in the IOW, these interdisciplinary essays further our understanding of the region, the environment, and the material, political and economic history of the world" Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Investigating Animals, Their Products, and Their Trades in the Indian Ocean World (Martha Chaiklin, Philip Gooding)....Pages 1-25 The Dutch East India Company and the Transport of Live Exotic Animals in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Ria Winters)....Pages 27-63 Can the Oyster Speak? Pearling Empires and the Marine Environments of South India and Sri Lanka, c. 1600–1900 (Samuel Ostroff)....Pages 65-98 Chank Fishing in South India Under the English East India Company, 1800–40 (Sundar Vadlamudi)....Pages 99-124 Horses and Power in the Southern Red Sea Region Since the Seventeenth Century (Steven Serels)....Pages 125-146 The Donkey Trade of the Indian Ocean World in the Long Nineteenth Century (William Gervase Clarence-Smith)....Pages 147-179 Commercialisation of Cattle in Imperial Madagascar, 1795–1895 (Gwyn Campbell)....Pages 181-215 Ayutthaya’s Seventeenth-Century Deerskin Trade in the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean and South China Sea (Ilicia J. Sprey, Kenneth R. Hall)....Pages 217-246 The Ivory Trade and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa (Philip Gooding)....Pages 247-275 The Flight of the Peacock, or How Peacocks Became Japanese (Martha Chaiklin)....Pages 277-314 Back Matter ....Pages 315-324 Résumé de l' éditeur : "This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human societies, and world systems. Focusing primarily on the period 1500-1900, they explore how animals and their products shaped the relationships between populations in the IOW and Europeans arriving by maritime routes. By elucidating this fundamental yet under-explored aspect of encounters and exchanges in the IOW, these interdisciplinary essays further our understanding of the region, the environment, and the material, political and economic history of the world" "This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human societies, and world systems. Focusing primarily on the period 1500-1900, they explore how animals and their products shaped the relationships between populations in the IOW and Europeans arriving by maritime routes. By elucidating this fundamental yet under-explored aspect of encounters and exchanges in the IOW, these interdisciplinary essays further our understanding of the region, the environment, and the material, political and economic history of the world."-- Page 4 of cover