Overview
- Presents the first collection of essays focused on the trade of animals and animal products within the Indian Ocean World
- Assembles case studies on a diverse range of animals, such as donkeys, oysters, and peacocks, to explore their pivotal role in the development of the Indian Ocean World region
- Consists of interdisciplinary essays from an international range of both established and emerging scholars
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Reviews
“The numbers of animals, commodities, places, and groups of (human) agents are impressive, the volume is nevertheless quite coherent … . Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World not only greatly enhances our knowledge of the tradewith and use of animals and animal commodities, but also highlights, by using this prism, the interconnectivity, shifting agency, and resilience of polities and trading communities across the IOW in an era of increasing European influence.” (Samuël Coghe, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 32 (3-4), 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martha Chaiklin received her PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She first became interested in animals when researching her book, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture (2003), and has since combined her interest in material culture and animals in publications on elephants, live animal gifts, tortoiseshell and ivory.
Philip Gooding is a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, and a course lecturer in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Canada. He has published articles in Slavery and Abolition and The Journal of African History, among other journals.
Gwyn Campbell is the founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada. His publications include Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to circa 1900 (2019), David Griffiths and the Missionary “History of Madagascar” (2012), and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
Editors: Martha Chaiklin, Philip Gooding, Gwyn Campbell
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42595-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42594-4Published: 22 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42597-5Published: 23 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42595-1Published: 21 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 324
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, African History, Asian History, Environment Studies