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Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History
Thomas R. Trautmann
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| #156888 in Books | imusti | 2015-08-03 | 2015-08-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.97 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | University of Chicago Press||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| This is an academic study of war elephants in the context of kingship and environment.|By lyndonbrecht|Reader alert: this book is academic in style. The book has a wealth of information but is a tough read in many sections. It is a combination of military and environmental history. The overall thesis is that kingship in India developed the war elephant as an important feature o||
“The intelligence, majestic presence, and physical prowess of the Asian elephant was not lost on India’s monarchs. As historian Thomas Trautmann shows in this scholarly environmental history, the beast’s usefulness in warfare and its pro
Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in th...
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