Format:
1 Online-Ressource (248 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781478012818
Content:
From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical—whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of European man underwrote the history of Western imperialism. Victorian imperial authorities, adventurers, and colonists used animals as companions, military transportation, agricultural laborers, food sources, and status symbols. They also overhunted and destroyed ecosystems, laying the groundwork for what has come to be known as climate change. At the same time, animals such as lions, tigers, and mosquitoes also interfered in the empire's racial, gendered, and political aspirations by challenging the imperial project’s sense of inevitability. Unconventional and innovative in form and approach, Animalia invites new ways to consider the consequences of imperial power by demonstrating how the politics of empire—in its racial, gendered, and sexualized forms—played out in multispecies relations across jurisdictions of British imperial control.Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Anna Jacobs, Peter Hansen, Daniel Heath Justice, Isabel Hofmeyr, Dane Kennedy, Jagjeet Lally, Krista Maglen, Amy E. Martin, Renisa Mawani, Heidi J. Nast, Michael A. Osborne, Harriet Ritvo, George Robb, Jonathan Saha, Sandra Swart, Angela Thompsell
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Animals, Disruptive Imperial Histories, and the Bestiary Form -- SOME WAYS TO READ THIS BOOK -- A is for Ape -- B is for Boar -- C is for Cattle -- D is for Dog -- E is for Elephant -- F is for Fox -- G is for Giraffe -- H is for Horse -- I is for Ibis -- J is for Jackal (and Dingo) -- K is for Kiwi -- L is for Lion -- M is for Mosquito -- N is for North Atlantic Right Whale -- O is for Okapi -- P is for Platypus -- Q is for Quagga -- R is for Raccoon -- S is for Scorpion -- T is for Tiger -- U is for Unicorn -- V is for Vulture -- W is for Whale -- X is for Xerus -- Y is for Yak -- Z is for Zebu -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478011286
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9781478011286
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012818
