{"product_id":"the-animal-in-ottoman-egypt-9780190655228","title":"The Animal in Ottoman Egypt","description":"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\u003cbr\u003efrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMikhail uses the history of the empire's most important province, Egypt, to explain how human interactions with livestock, dogs, and charismatic megafauna changed more in a few centuries than they had for millennia. The human world became one in which animals' social and economic functions were\u003cbr\u003ediminished. Without animals, humans had to remake the societies they had built around intimate and cooperative interactions between species. The political and even evolutionary consequences of this separation of people and animals were wrenching and often violent. This book's interspecies\u003cbr\u003ehistories underscore continuities between the early modern period and the nineteenth century and help to reconcile Ottoman and Arab histories. Further, the book highlights the importance of integrating Ottoman history with issues in animal studies, economic history, early modern history, and\u003cbr\u003eenvironmental history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarefully crafted and compellingly argued, \u003cem\u003eThe Animal in Ottoman Egypt\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the high price humans and animals paid as they entered the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Mikhail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190655228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Mikhail\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of\u003cem\u003e Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Roger Owen Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association, and editor of\u003cem\u003e Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAfrica. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929211715699,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_da4f5f0a-951d-44eb-9da0-94a9601c6d52.jpg?v=1647611583","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-animal-in-ottoman-egypt-9780190655228","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}