Couverture / Jaquette

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.

Note biographique

Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History, which won the Roger Owen Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association, and editor of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa.

Table des matières

• Acknowledgments


• Preface: Three Species


• Introduction: Cephalopods in the Nile


• Part I: Burdened and Beastly


• 1. Early Modern Human and Animal


• 2. Unleashing the Beast


• Part II: Bark and Bite


• 3. In-Between


• 4. Evolution in the Streets


• Part III. Charisma and Capital


• 5. Enchantment


• 6. Encagement


• Conclusion: The Human Ends


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

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