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In this book, renowned historian of India Tom Trautmann presents an ecological history of Indian kingship in which elephants play a surprising role. Despite the fact that the economic lan… Mehr…
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2015, ISBN: 9780226264363
University of Chicago Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 388 Seiten, Publiziert: 2015-08-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table, 0.… Mehr…
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2015, ISBN: 9780226264363
University of Chicago Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 388 Seiten, Publiziert: 2015-08-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table, 0.… Mehr…
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Elephants and Kings : An Environmental History by Thomas R. Trautmann - gebrauchtes Buch
ISBN: 9780226264363
In this book, renowned historian of India Tom Trautmann presents an ecological history of Indian kingship in which elephants play a surprising role. Despite the fact that the economic lan… Mehr…
ISBN: 9780226264363
Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizationssuch as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilizatio… Mehr…
Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History - Taschenbuch
2015
ISBN: 9780226264363
University of Chicago Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 388 Seiten, Publiziert: 2015-08-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table, 0.… Mehr…
Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History - Taschenbuch
2015, ISBN: 9780226264363
University of Chicago Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 388 Seiten, Publiziert: 2015-08-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table, 0.… Mehr…
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Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
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Autor des Buches: thomas trautmann, traut, trautman
Titel des Buches: when were kings, éléphants, elephant, elephants, trautmann
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