{"product_id":"the-animal-in-ottoman-egypt-paperback","title":"The Animal in Ottoman Egypt - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Mikhail\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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 diminished. 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 histories 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 environmental 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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 Africa. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50344916877549,"sku":"9780190655228","price":82.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/AsulSOg9t9780190655228.webp?v=1785195579","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/the-animal-in-ottoman-egypt-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}